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OS packagers have bugs like this every so often, because they still run custom upgrade scripts behind the scenes. Pretty sure I remember one in Debian a few years back (sorry, name escapes), and it was not the first time I remember seeing that.

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I might just have been lucky then as that has never happened to me in almost +30 years of using various distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, CentOS, Redhat and more. Literally not a single time this has happened to me on either desktop nor server. But as I said, I might just have been lucky. Looks like I will increase my backup frequency now.

The first time I installed Linux was around 2007. I use it as my main OS since 2010.

I have only lost data due to hard drive failure, or at my own request (i.e formatting over what I thought I had backed up).

I recently enabled TRIM on my full-disk-encrypted SSD system. No sign of data loss yet.

I have always used ext3/ext4.

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