Everyday Linux
I use Linux every single day, seeing as how none of the computers at my house run any other OS’ and I have a laptop for school/work. Being a System76 machine, it runs perfectly for me (with an exception for a couple of Kubuntu Hardy bugs) and I’m more than happy with it. The problem is that I work in an office using the *other* OS’ and I have to deal with them on a daily basis.
I entered work and my fellow co-worker in the tech department was having for lack of a better term “issues” with his computer. We had other computers for use in the office so it would be okay once he put in a new hard drive and did a reinstall of Windows over the weekend, he tells me. Note: fourth install of Windows in as many weeks. Near the end of the day, he said something to the extent of ‘my hard drive is broken so I cant get that file you need for you.’ Now to be clear, his OS was broken and even his file system was in a bad state, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t get the files I needed. In fact, this sounds like a perfect job for a Linux algorithm.
Live CD of Finnix (Debian based)
reboot.
boot cd.
fdisk -l (logged in as root so no need for ’sudo’)
cd /mnt; ls
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda
cd (to the directory containing the files we need)
cp foo.file /mnt/sdb1 (sdb1 being my flash drive)
umount /mnt/sdb1 (or you can just pull the thing out)
Lesson learned: Linux > Windows.
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