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Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> > jacques wrote:
> >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
> >
> > Everyone has made that mistake at some point.  I know I have!
> 
> Not me!

Me neither!

However, on my first attempt to back up a Debian system, I somewhat
misunderstood the tar man page and entered:

tar cvzf /dev/hda1 *

-- 
Dave Sherohman


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