At 6:44 PM -0800 1999/12/14, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> There... easy enough??? fsdb is not that big of a deal as long as you
> stay with the basic commands of cd, ls, chown, chmod, chgrp, rm and ln.
> It's the ones like uplink downlink chgen that can hose you up but good.
>
> If it looks like a shell command, smells like a shell command and the
> man page description reads like a command it behaves pretty much like
> the command.
I had always been terrified to even look at the man page for
fsdb, fearing that even that amount of arrogance could permanently
hose up the filesystem. ;-)
Seriously, thanks for the enlightenment! Next time I'm on a
seriously hosed system, perhaps this information can be used to help
me save my butt.
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