Re: which half are you in?

["Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org> writes:

  dc> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 14:29, dave mallery wrote:

  >> those who have done an rm -R * in root and those who have not done
  >> it yet.

  dc> I am in the second half. I've never done rm -r anywhere
  dc> important. I have however done a mkfs on a partition that was
  dc> supposed to be part of a Disksuite stripeset. Does that count?

I've also never done rm -r on important data.

But back in 1993 when I first started using Linux I was using dd on my
Sun to rawwrite Linux images onto floppy disks to take home, and I
accidentally put the dd output to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/fd0
... goodbye, HD partitions.  Hello, reinstall.

Doh! :)

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