Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:29 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) schrieb: >> >> > On Feb 09, Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> File a bugreport... /etc/init.d/udev says: >> > Don't. >> > >> >> # /.dev is used by /sbin/MAKEDEV to access the real /dev directory. >> >> # if you don't like this, remove /.dev/. >> > "Remove /.dev/" does not mean "rm -rf it". >> > Considering that the line above says "to access the real /dev >> > directory", I think that the message is very clear. >> >> Considering that not every user knows about bind-mount, and might be >> confused and think that it is "something like" a symlink, I think that >> this is worth some better documentation. I would suggest: >> >> # If you don't like this, umount /.dev/ and remove the empty directory. > > This does not excuse the fact that someone with (a) root access, > and (b) without the proper knowledge, went around rm'ing things.
I thought Debian was a distribution targetted at a wide audience, including experienced server admins, and home users without any training or special knowledge. Of course there are some things we must expect from our users. But I wouldn't count "understanding of bind-mount" among that. What we can expect it that they read documentation, and therefore documentation should be as clear as possible. I don't want to "excuse" if someone who has insufficient knowledge messes up their system. But I think if we can easily help such clueless users, we should do it - there's no excuse for our not doing it, either. > Hopefully, this isn't wildly offensive to Germans and Austrians: No, at least not to me. I don't understand it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
