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What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

scp

I'm never using a flash drive again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

especially nice when you get path completion on the target server :D

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Note: to do this you have to have your public key on the remote server

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Next step: rsync, because it lets you resume.