was on a VM server i had a backup but still funny moment

AMA

do you know you can fix that with the install media even tho u have a backup

I definitely did that one time when I was trying to figure better out how unix worked like 4 years ago yeah it's definitely a ahhh I'm a tard moment

how to do that

i was panicking when i realized it was taking too long then i realized

and then i googled alot but then i realized i can just restore a backup and felt so much stress go away

dead lol yeah always good to have a backup

which distro are u on?

I can't remember the guide but I was using centos and I used fstab to mount the os in a temporary version of the os

by clicking try cent os on install boot up

then the install was the root and could fix the issue

oh its just ubuntu

does that overwrite all files ? and installed packages will definitely be useful in the future

nah everything didn't have to be reinstalled it could cause other issues with your permissions though but it worked when I tried it

bet

that moment after i cancelled the command and typed chmod and it suddenly said no permission was lowkey hilarious

yeah definitely I remember it took me a minute to figure how badly I had f***ed up

I had only used cmd on windows or Mac terminal both don't let you make dumb mistakes like that without some f***er and tons of warnings

in Linux it just happens the second you make the mistake

linux wack asf for having no undo

you should add this on stackoverflow