Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down
by MBCook on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:27PM
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I did it to one of my linux boxes once, but caught it before it got everything.
It made for a very trippy and insightful experience. Commands that had already been run (like cp, ls, mv, cd, etc.) worked fine since they were in memory but other ones wouldn't run (/bin was one of the first to go).
I tried for about an hour to bootstrap the system back to normal by copying files of CD/etc but in the end the damage was too bad for my (very amateur) experience and I ended up reinstalling.
It made for a very trippy and insightful experience. Commands that had already been run (like cp, ls, mv, cd, etc.) worked fine since they were in memory but other ones wouldn't run (/bin was one of the first to go).
I tried for about an hour to bootstrap the system back to normal by copying files of CD/etc but in the end the damage was too bad for my (very amateur) experience and I ended up reinstalling.