When Rendering Your Laptop Unbootable Is a Learning Experience
Introduction. What happened? I was at a customer site assisting some performance testing of Linux hosts connected to NetApp via NFS. The customer was using sio_ntap which is a NetApp provided load generator and I was experimenting with the same on my laptop. I wasn’t paying close attention and instead of pointing the tool at a file I pointed it at /dev/sda2 which is /boot on my system. I did this dumb thing as root of course.