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Another day another not much, what about you?

Could you imagine if as this post's title suggests, you were asked a question and could be given a text box to write it in HOWEVER I'd be pinged for that over XMPP protocol, and I come by and be like, "Interesting. So it's true, salt does have a major factor in baking cookies. Well today I learned ^^", and the unsuspecting reader who was curious and jolly enough get's a response from none other than The Woodcutter himself LIVE!

And here I wonder how many of you folks wondered how easy it would be to use some LLM (as people incorrectly call it "ai", no credit for any actual intelligence however) to make generally acceptable parlay in the form of dialogue. Under guise of, well, even impersonation of myself, or whatever supposed human interaction it ought to imply. I can't say I am a fan of this "ai" shite, as it had me get too upset to remain on my previous LinkedIn account, and sometimes on Reddit (which I do like this platform, it'd be my favorite "normie" social media) I end up ripping on some bot quite pointedly, it's just another misfortune rampant and unstoppable now on the very thing I've loved so much for my entire life: computers/internet.

I came here anyways to log some of my recent efforts on Debian. This past couple of days I've been diving somewhat deeper into hardening Debian and looking around, checking various of the usual Linux functions and factors. I recently about a week ago reinstalled COMPLETELY NEW Debian, which no lies happens often and wouldn't normally be such a big deal except that I had to move 100's of GB of my data, and I literally just plain nuked a couple of big partitions and disks, for a total lack of will to deal with piece by piece organizing it all. And I discovered something cool about cockpit when I was using Rocky 9.6 recently for a while, during the first half of the winter, is that it can automount and save your partition keys with dm-crypt. I was able to copy cp -rp /var/* /var/.* /mnt/ which was on /dev/mapper/ as decrypted, then use cockpit while the system was running to remount this /var/ under the new encrypted partition and also automatically decrypt and mount it at boot. So I immeditely rebooted after this HOWEVER in some series of happenings where I'm sure my eyes were not properly focused on the alphas and numerals that were upon my terminals, I accidentally deleted the entire /etc/fstab SHIIT!

SO, the purpose of this web log now is to tell you about 3 of my recent favorite Debian packages, in which the one that SAVED me here when I only WISHED I had genfstab -U / > /etc/fstab, from Arch Linux, is arch-install-scripts. Yep! You guessed it! On Debian, same package name as on Arch Linux, the arch-install-scripts that also includes arch-chroot on Arch Linux. I did not verify this was a thing for Debian, but if it is?!?! Give me a sec, I'll see...



HELL YES! !!! Do we know what this means? WE KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS::> 😸 :: For a lazy ass like myself, at least :: 😹 <::Oh what fun there is to be had!



MMmmmmmmMMmmkkKKk ....
Hardcore cool. It works as I would've hoped, wow nice. Ezpz Debian chroot into filesystems. So damn cool!



That was a lot of fun. Sorry I ran off my topic, why this is such a stoke is because for a while that night after I erased my /etc/fstab and was delighted to find arch-install-scripts in Debian packages, I had to do some cool old stuff, and bring forward some of my long time Linux knowledge, as in order to do a number of various recoveries booted in lower runlevels I had to telinit 5, and various other lower level Linux stuff in my process of fixing this. So despite that I had done a major hurt to my brand new Debian that day, I managed to eventually recover the system, including apply 3 more encrypted partitions as filesystem mounts via cockpit-ws, and reminisce live about when I learned how this all worked. Felt good reminding myself I know some shit, not just a smoker and a joker hahaha!
It was a good time, absolutely.

.. pyblog WHEN ALREADY! Perhaps the python powers to be won't let me endure as much stoke as I predict, when I can worthy work through the scripted actions of this blog. All the more reason not to forget THE WOODCUTTER.

Tags: fstab, linux, arch-install-scripts, debootstrap, hardening-runtime, debian12, debian13, apt-full-upgrade, trixie, bookworm, arch-chroot, linux-skills, good-times, give-your-intelligence-to-the-bot, the-bot-will-oppress-mankind, bewarethechunk, ezpz-debian-chroot, thanks-the-arch-way, archlinux