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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[-] ximtor@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Not quite as impressive, but I somehow fucked up something with my bootloader lately and couldn't boot anymore into my main drive. Loaded up a live usb stick and made a new ESP partition, arch-chroot and grub-install/grub-makecfg and it worked again.

Yes, I just followed a guide, but I am still fascinated this just worked on the first try.

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