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When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
Let's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux and how to recover from that. The easy
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Mar 22, 2025 | When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022) by todsacerdoti | 191 | 111 |
