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So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I've rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I'm still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

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[–] plum@lemmy.zip 118 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This command was very useful for quickly finding a server in a row of hundreds of identical servers. No need to read the labels or look up which rack it's in. Just log in remotely, just use 'eject', and then walk down the row to the server that has its tray out.

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was wondering why they still sold servers with disk drives

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For deploying your sick playlist to production, obviously!

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No not mine, thermal performance always goes haywire 😔

[–] plum@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I haven't worked in a data center in years, so I don't know the current norm for server hardware.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

VPS providers hate this one trick

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

Modern problems require modern solution.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some CD trays will auto-close though.

[–] plum@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The Dell servers we had at the time all had slim laptop style CD trays, so no auto-close to worry about.