In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
newfs /dev/da0s1a
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /dev/sa0
On Mar 4, 2013, at 01:47, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
All I see is a pre-existing BSD partition being explicitly newfs'ed and
then mounted, followed by some stuff being restored to that (clean)
BSD partition from whatever is currently sitting on the tape drive
called
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
newfs
Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:08:37AM +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can
In message 63618304-837e-4b76-8157-d99c744ac...@wolfhut.org,
Ben Cottrell tam...@wolfhut.org wrote:
I guess the same text in the man page could be read several
different ways! The way I read it (which may or may not be
correct) is that the example given is an example of how to
use it
In message 20130304151707.gc76...@jerrymc.net,
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
This and the previous reply are correct. This example shows
a correct way to use 'restore -r'
The '-r' flag causes it to write where you are cd-ed to without any
warning what you are doing or
El día Monday, March 04, 2013 a las 01:12:41PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette
escribió:
I'm thinking: If it is worth putting a warning into the man page,
perhaps it is worth putting a warning into the code itself, to
protect the unwary.
Anybody here ever used Clonezilla? A nice useful tool.
