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What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard? (lemmy.world)
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For me, my high bar that I have yet to beat, was the time I pivoted the running OS (ubuntu) into RAM over SSH so I could unmount and image the boot drive without rebooting and loading a live USB (Which would have required a ticket with my provider to enable IPMI)

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[-] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh so many fun adventures, too much to count... But a few nice ones:

  • HDD died, so ran a desktop system over network from a NAS (nfs) without HDD.. for months.
  • Rebuilding a corrupted system (any bit advanced tools wouldn't start anymore, like apt).
  • Custom bootable live cd based on Linux From Scratch (around 2002).
  • Anything related to Kerberos and NFS4.
  • Replacing syscalls to run software from a ramdrive that would otherwise not work.
  • Recently using debootstrap to install Kubuntu with a ZFS root, which went surprisingly smooth and pretty easy.

I love Linux for all these insane possibilities.

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