%% Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dc> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 14:29, dave mallery wrote:
>> those who have done an rm -R * in root and those who have not done >> it yet. dc> I am in the second half. I've never done rm -r anywhere dc> important. I have however done a mkfs on a partition that was dc> supposed to be part of a Disksuite stripeset. Does that count? I've also never done rm -r on important data. But back in 1993 when I first started using Linux I was using dd on my Sun to rawwrite Linux images onto floppy disks to take home, and I accidentally put the dd output to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/fd0 ... goodbye, HD partitions. Hello, reinstall. Doh! :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
