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 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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