Swagdorf

@Swagdorf@lemmy.world

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What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

Swagdorf,

I wanted to move my Arch VM to bare metal, so I copied out all the important bits. Then I wanted to move that copy to a new drive so I could boot into it.

I THOUGHT I’d MV all the files in the Arch install’s etc directory using sudo MV /etc …

I also (somehow) mashed my install’s etc with Arch’s and bungled both, with no live CD to help.

I learned a thing or two about absolute file paths…

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