@nixCraft rebooted during a kernel update

@nixCraft dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sda

@nixCraft raid1 on / and change wrong disk on mail server 🎃.

@nixCraft mysterious hang per month. btrfs scrub on buggy NVME firmware.

@nixCraft after a system update, on restart PopOS bricked.

@nixCraft

"Unstable branch? Let's try it!"

@nixCraft is the internet down? No it's just my wifi driver!

@nixCraft PDFs stored as blobs in a MyISAM table.

@nixCraft Rebooted w/floppy, inserted root disk, saw LILO bootloader! 😂

#RedHatHalloween

@nixCraft Search drivers.

@nixCraft I rm -rf /'d (as root) our backup server during a major DNS outage.

(16k zones hosted, Surf Speedy was the company)

FYI, I posted this a long long time ago:

My 10 Linux and UNIX Command Line Mistakes
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/my-10-unix-command-line-mistakes.html

It has over 700+ comments so you can see how bad it gets.

@nixCraft Dissertation. Run rm -rf in the wrong directory. No backups.

@nixCraft upgraded to new ssh keys for several servers; then botched nextcloud sync wiped out my keepass file with the keys to the keys lol.

@nixCraft Fourteen years old, first Linux laptop, no wifi driver

@nixCraft
sudo rm -rf

@nixCraft graphics drivers