So im pretty sure I made the biggest/dumbest fuckup for the year already...
Deleting the majority of our RHEL server's root partition.

Blonde mistake for sure.

Technically i didn't actually delete it... just fucked up the block device so it's no longer recognised as existing.

I could go fishing for data and put it back together... but since i have the boot par and all the uset account configs... plus i actually documented all remarkable server updates cuz im trying to get better at the whole 'having a team' thing... im just gonna play it safe and go through it all like old school video games when you die right before the checkpoint so you need to go through the same paths again and again... but not too fast or youll fuck up somewhere easy and itll drive u nuts when u gotta reiterate again.

@jestdotty here you go. Always saying I just mention positives about myself... cant get much worse than this.

Holy ravioly, you work fast!

Best of luck, let us know if you manage to figure it out before anyone notices

@UberSalt lol... I'm actually the one in charge. So though i couldve made it so no one noticed my fuck up, it wouldnt have been wise to do so. Especially with a small company... and me being relatively young to be at the helm, it's important that fuckups of admin level arent obfuscated too much.
Looking flawless for public view is often a good move, but if it's that way internally, it can put excess stress on valuable assets/employees because theyd view any of their mistakes in a much harsher light.

Since i was the one who configured all this(and thankfully i dont trust "the cloud" so it's all very local) it's just a marathon of boring. I kept good logs of all major changes so itd be easier and less error prone when others had to do any configs (some stuff like wayland vs X11 being switched around wouldve been major issues). So its just busy work

@mansur85 well technically...
Title: DragonOverlord
Im the owner. Though I'm a fullstack, I prefer my networking and data architectures. I have some people for front end (also fullstacks but they prefer more front end)... and a few babydevs (there's others but not in dev aspects).

@mansur85 I've never really had a simple job description. Even with my first job i was a translator, consultant and chat host... the consultant part stuck around, often backed by my multiple languages for international business consulting. The best description I can think of for any of that consulting work, less than a couple paragraphs, would be "advise and fix problems" which is obv very general.

Im a unique breed.

@mansur85 ooo... berlin! Ich mag deutsch mehr als englisch... wenn du willst habe ich tg(@awesomeest) oder discord (sara.awesomeest).

@jestdotty i think there's even more stressors before that point... similarly to what many people had to deal with since childhood... the fear of being "disappointing". I say this from mainly a perspective of more properly managed environments. It's easier to root out fear mongering managers (at least to me) than the ones who are competent and care... to the point of a more toxic environment because of the same things that, in a vacuum, are ideal traits.

Perhaps i have a different perspective with this due to my personal exp, but ive seen it throughout my life. It occurred several times even when tutoring kids since middle school or coaching forensic speech kids... even when i was senior in a catagory and, unknown to me, there was some forum posts of kids from other schools using me as the standard to overcome if any of them were to attempt to win at states.

People project insecurities and turn them into the lochness monster... with teleportatation and ability to live on land

I have minor sysadmin experience and I was scratching my head figuring out how this was possible.

Then I saw RHEL and I've never heard of it.

I searched and I saw it was Red Hat.

Instantly I figured out why he messed up.

Linux... LMAO

@IHateFrameworks "he"? And fyi, it wasnt a lack of understanding linux... it was simply doing something dumb.

Side note... that exp must be very minor... rhel is a pretty common reference, even outside of sys admin situations. But hey, at least you look things up.

@awesomeest I heard RHEL before, but I mainly work on windows machines and totally forgot. I tend to avoid linux as much as possible. It's a cancer for the whole IT world and I worked with it and I can say it.

@IHateFrameworks i dont think you understand the innate purpose/value of linux.
Don't get me wrong; you wont see me switching my PC OS to Ubuntu (or any unix), but for things like servers with piles of dbs... linux is definitely the way to go, even if it only makes sense on hallucinogens.