Bug#60397: boot-floppies: deleting is not a good idea
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> tpo@spin.ch wrote:
> > After installing over a former RH I discovered that the contents of /home
> > had been rm -R *. I think that is an extemely bad idea. I can not see any
> > use doing so, but I can see a ---lot--- of grief for people (my case
> > ;-) loosing all their data. Please don't do it. Remove that from the
> > scripts. please.
>
> It seems you must have ignored the warnings that said your partition was
> being formatted and all data would be lost.
I did not initialise any partitions. I did "Mount a previously initialised
partition" or such (btw. not everything was erased - but /home in
particular --was--).
*t
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