civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > >KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> > >>During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other > >>filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the > >>root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the > >>filesystems. > > > >That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. > > > >But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks for the > >reality check. > > Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop > the system in its tracks: > > /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin > > Those really need to be in /.
Agreed, now that I'm thinking straight. :-) > Now as for > > alias rm rm -i I don't recall complaining about the rm alias.... :-) > suppose you are typing > > rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f > > and at the point where you have typed > > rm -r / > > The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on <Enter>. > > Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is > already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes > like chicken because you didn't have -i? I'd be determining if the cat really tastes like chicken, because when I want to get rid of a directory recursively, I type rm -rf /the/directory/to/delete Assuming that I'm not above the directory that I want to get rid of. 99.999% of the time (I'm sure it's actually 100%, but I'm allowing for the possibility that I might do it the other way), if I want to get rid of a directory, I will cd to the directory above the one that I want to get rid of, and then just rm -rf directoryname Which is much less dangerous than typing anything starting with "/" when using those options. :-) > Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server > migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux > distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding > as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough, > especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a > kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show > as an update--have to DL and install) I'm glad to hear that. :-) When I was new to Mandrake, I was certainly one of the people who got caught by that when it still showed up. rpmdrake didn't give any warnings about using it on a kernel. I know better *now*, but it wasn't until it was too late that I learned that lesson.... --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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