marcan/takeover.sh
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebooting. You know you want to.
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 6 stories, 2 comments · first 2017-02-10 · latest 2026-03-06
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…like "kexec" but taking over the entire hardware at the lowest possible level. Edit, found this: https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh But it's not as low level as I hoped, though it keeps the network running which is nice :)
comment by amelius · 2026-03-06 · in Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk -
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takeover.shstory by tosh · 2021-08-21 · 1 comment
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)story by ddtaylor · 2021-03-10 · 0 comments
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)story by 1nvalid · 2019-03-11 · 79 comments
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Takeover.sh: Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without rebootingstory by striking · 2018-12-22 · 1 comment
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…StackOverflow answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226872/how-to-shrin... There's also https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622301 ) Both of these share a similar…
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Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without rebootstory by tambourine_man · 2017-02-11 · 75 comments
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH, without rebootingstory by jasonrm · 2017-02-10 · 0 comments