minus-squareherc3141@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?linkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-210 months agoBacked up the whole disk image to an external drive because I didn’t have time for a proper backup but knew I would need some of those files later. Installed a fresh new OS on the same disk, used it for a couple of months. Needed to make some space on the external drive I had the backup on so I’ll just delete the backed up system files from it. cd /mnt/external_drive rm - r /usr /boot … As you can probably see, a fresh new install was happening again linkfedilink
minus-squareherc3141@lemmy.worldtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•so this might be a little embarrassing, but how do I create a torrent and upload to a tracker?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI would love to get this too linkfedilink
Backed up the whole disk image to an external drive because I didn’t have time for a proper backup but knew I would need some of those files later.
Installed a fresh new OS on the same disk, used it for a couple of months.
Needed to make some space on the external drive I had the backup on so I’ll just delete the backed up system files from it.
As you can probably see, a fresh new install was happening again