Re: /usr/src and file permissions
Quoting Michelle Konzack (starone@cybercable.fr):
> for an half hour I had done this with my Workstation and 700 MBytes...
> (asked in debian-usr-de@ifl.de)
>
> I have used this:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
> cp -fpR /usr/src/* /mnt
> umount /mnt
> rm -fR /usr/src/*
> rm -fR /usr/src/.*
Isn't that one of the things you see in sysadmin horror stories?
Convince me that it doesn't wipe out /usr/* entirely.
And just out of interest, what would you want /usr/src/.* to match
(i.e. what's hidden there?).
> mount /dev/hdb1 /usr/src
>
> thats all...
Cheers,
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