civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wrote:
>
> >KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >>
> >>During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other
> >>filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the
> >>root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the
> >>filesystems.
> >
> >That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that.
> >
> >But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks for the
> >reality check.
>
> Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop
> the system in its tracks:
>
> /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin
>
> Those really need to be in /.
Agreed, now that I'm thinking straight. :-)
> Now as for
>
> alias rm rm -i
I don't recall complaining about the rm alias.... :-)
> suppose you are typing
>
> rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f
>
> and at the point where you have typed
>
> rm -r /
>
> The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on <Enter>.
>
> Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is
> already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes
> like chicken because you didn't have -i?
I'd be determining if the cat really tastes like chicken, because when I
want to get rid of a directory recursively, I type
rm -rf /the/directory/to/delete
Assuming that I'm not above the directory that I want to get rid of.
99.999% of the time (I'm sure it's actually 100%, but I'm allowing for the
possibility that I might do it the other way), if I want to get rid of a
directory, I will cd to the directory above the one that I want to get rid
of, and then just
rm -rf directoryname
Which is much less dangerous than typing anything starting with "/" when
using those options. :-)
> Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server
> migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux
> distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding
> as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough,
> especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a
> kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show
> as an update--have to DL and install)
I'm glad to hear that. :-) When I was new to Mandrake, I was certainly one
of the people who got caught by that when it still showed up. rpmdrake
didn't give any warnings about using it on a kernel. I know better *now*,
but it wasn't until it was too late that I learned that lesson....
--Dave
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