On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:57, Paul Smith wrote: > %% 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! :) > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Smith <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. My closest was defragging my /home partition (it actually *did* need it - 37% of a 22 GB drive) and trying to play SVGA games on another console with Framebuffer running while the defrag was halfway along, dealing largely with one directory with a *few thousand* files amounting to 2/3rds of the drive - hung fully, and when rebooted involved *very significant* fscking to have any hope of having a mountable partition, with half the data lost and half of the rest in lost+found. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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