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Fire up a VM and try it out, OpenBSD is a really nice OS to work with IMO.
...until you put a typo in /etc/fstab when you're not used to plain old vi, and get to discover the joys of learning ed. Without a man page because that was in /usr too.
I wish that was a joke.
it is a joke, you're funny
you could have made a backup copy of fstab before dicking with it. or followed the excellent OpenBSD documentation and made backup root partition.
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The system was down for backups from 5am to 10am last Saturday.
YAY for BSD (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Fire up a VM and try it out, OpenBSD is a really nice OS to work with IMO.
Re: (Score:0, Flamebait)
...until you put a typo in /etc/fstab when you're not used to plain old vi, and get to discover the joys of learning ed. Without a man page because that was in /usr too.
I wish that was a joke.
Re:YAY for BSD (Score:3)
it is a joke, you're funny
you could have made a backup copy of fstab before dicking with it. or followed the excellent OpenBSD documentation and made backup root partition.