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A comment on Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem. Parent comment

Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by nixpulvis on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:36AM (#36893275)
Strange, 90% of the things trapped in my flash memory are system files.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by vntok on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:03AM (#36905648)
You should get another drive and reserve it to Data. The cost is negligible and it really makes everything much simpler.

Optimizing your system or upgrading it just becomes a "trash boot drive and reinstall" operation, applied without a care in the world.

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