> It could be either. The command you typed effectively formatted the > disk. > > /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black > hole. If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly > what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite > anything that exists in that file (in this case the entire contents of > your disk). If you use a double chevron (>>) you will append the > contents of /dev/null to the end of the file (in this case, your disk). > > All I can say is "I hope you took a backup..." > > Kind regards, > > Matt >
well, is that so simple to format the hardisk? format is ok as long as it doesn't render my hard disk useless.
