JATtho@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
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9 months agoOn arch, UEFI boot vars are mounted at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
. It’s unwise to rm -rf
them…
On arch, UEFI boot vars are mounted at /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
. It’s unwise to rm -rf
them…
<tinfoilhat>This post is literally an pwns-list of users admitting what they use as password manager that may be stolen.
I encrypted an file, I put it on a device and mostly forgot it exists. Now if service locks me out I have go hunting.</tinfoilhat>
I had a similar debacle, when I managed to corrupt a btrfs file system to point it wouldn’t mount again…
I was preparing it to have as my main system on bare hardware. I had accidentally mounted the same block device simultaneously in the host and guest: kablamo silent corruption and all 5 hours of progress lost.* :(
*shred the guest VM, host was ok.