John Stumbles wrote the following on 06.10.2007 17:39 <<-snip->>
> But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / > (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? It depends on your partitionlayout. Apart from that: tom once i 'rm -rf *' without recognizing i am in the wrong directory. And since it was a Gentoo that day where compiling the system took ~1 whole week with the system i had. Guess who is the more 'the profoundly embarrassed loose cannon' you or me? :) If there would ever be a 'geek' pretending he never did such fault i would not belive he is a geek. So the good news is: you learn from it. bye -- Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]