[04:12] <lotuspsychj3> good morning
[19:21]  * SamuelMarks goes brb
[19:21] <lotuspsychj3> o/
[19:22] <SamuelMarks> ok so the consensus is that I backup everything and reinstall Ubuntu but on a different filesystem that supports snapshots
[19:22] <SamuelMarks> ?
[19:22] <cbreak> there's https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v2.3.x/guides/ubuntu/noble-uefi.html, which looks reasonable. I followed https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu%2022.04%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html though
[19:22]  * SamuelMarks record for most OSs on one machine is 5
[19:22] <cbreak> SamuelMarks: that's not my proposal for solving your current problem, it's my recommendation for avoiding it in the future. Or at least possibly avoiding it.
[19:23] <cbreak> I've had macos, windows and linux on the same. All different SSDs though.
[19:23] <lotuspsychj3> backups are also a good idea :p
[19:23] <cbreak> Yes...
[19:23] <lotuspsychj3> how fast are clean installs on ssd's these days
[19:23] <SamuelMarks> I've had SOlaris, FreeBSD, Windows, Linux, macOS (specifically hackint0sh Mac OS X)
[19:23] <cbreak> (if you want to use ZFSBootMenu, make sure to not use a separate dataset for /boot, put it onto / )
[19:24] <SamuelMarks> lotuspsychj3: everything important is public on my github anyway :P
[19:24] <lotuspsychj3> good
[19:25] <SamuelMarks> https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs - ok so maybe I can hack this together
[19:26] <SamuelMarks> I've got a free 64GB partition let me try and get Windows and Linux installed there and if that works I'll incrementally move the data across to that until I have one big 1TB partition
[19:27] <cbreak> SamuelMarks: last I've seen, ZFS on Windows is very alpha
[19:28] <cbreak> I wouldn't use it there. Even ZFS on MacOS is not as stable as on linux. (And I've used it on MacOS for a decade or so...)
[19:28] <cbreak> well... I would have if I'd still boot MacOS)
[19:29] <SamuelMarks> so btrfs then?
[19:31] <cbreak> may murphy have pitty on your data
[19:31] <cbreak> that thing isn't even stable on linux I think
[19:32] <SamuelMarks> ok I need to think if I can be bothered risking everything ntfs2btrfs
[19:36] <cbreak> you actually need windows? :)
[19:36] <cbreak> I never really used it beyond a few games while using MacOS, and now on linux, every game I've tried worked just fine in proton or lutris
[20:08] <SamuelMarks> cbreak - yeah I do cross-platform development