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  1. …in reply to @pdp7
    @pdp7 20 years ago, I brought a Linux laptop to study abroad in Moscow. I put a copy of the install CD on an unmounted partition. A week in, disk corruption hit. It took out mount(1).
    1. …in reply to @obra
      @pdp7 I didn't know C, but had a copy of K&R with me. I managed to cobble together a custom (trivial) implementation of mount from man pages. I was...very proud of myself.