On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
Whether Apple wants to admit that its machines can crash and thereby
cream the filesystem is another question...
presumably that's what macOS Recovery is for:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
That, of course, assumes that everything is working nicely; I'm guessing
that Bill is referring to a real "balls to the wall" situation here....
For example, I make sure that "/bin/ed" exists on all my boxes, because it
might be (and has been) the only editor available at the time (and yes,
FreeBSD has "/rescue/ed" too).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
