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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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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Moving from old to new Laptop by piping /dev/sda3's content through netcat and into /dev/nvme0n1p3

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    Using dd to move-resize a partition by writing down the cylinder numbers and moving it piece by piece like some Tower of Hanoi. Wanted to add more space to my root after deleting the Windows partition, which happened to be first. There is apparently no built-in command to do that.

    Booted up fingers crossed and everything worked.

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