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A long long time ago the team I was part of managed old unix systems. A coworker telnet'd (or rsh, can't recall) into such a machine to do some maintenance and
by lloeki 2y ago
A long long time ago the team I was part of managed old unix systems.
A coworker telnet'd (or rsh, can't recall) into such a machine to do some maintenance and after a while fat fingered:
umount /
Would you believe it, back then being root meant this was absolutely unprotected and the minicomputer OS (some ancient AIX) dutifully complied.
The chaos that ensued is but a blur.
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoDid you just restart?
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoWasn’t restarting those AIX dinosaurs a nontrivial thing?
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoI could believe it. I’m just hoping OP can provide more info.
- dingaling 2y agoUsing what command, though?
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoPerhaps there's a restart button?