• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had a dream the other night that I accidentally deleted the ls command and it broke a bunch of shit on my linux server.

    Yet it still booted, and my mdadm raid array was still intact. I had to boot from a live CD to copy the command over.

    As someone who knows enough about linux to run a ubuntu file server, but has never contributed to a meaningful open source project in his life, is this something that can actually happen?

    • Falmarri@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sure. There’s a story around somewhere of someone deleting basically all of /bin and was able to recover the live system