Linux and boring elephants
Linux is a wonderful operating system. But let's face it, even wonderful operating systems can sometimes lock up or freeze. Have you ever experienced that? I have. So what to do when nothing responds any more? Most logical option: press power until the machine switches off. Unfortunately you risk corruption on the disks. Usually nothing bad, and fsck will be able to correct that, but it's not funny. There is a better way, using boring…
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