Generally speaking, linux relies on its users to not do things unless they know what they are doing. If you don't believe me try logging in as root and typing "rm -rf /usr".(in case you don't know, that will foobar your system and likely force you to re-install from the beginning)
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 09:05, erif wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Steven Smith wrote: > > What you've seen isn't entirely inconsistent with that, if you have > > five logical partitions under the primary for hda4. > > Ah.. Yes, I do. =) > > > > > One thing I found particularly interesting is that _both_ /dev/hda2 and > > > /dev/hda14 seem to represent /dev/ad0s2a, and I can even mount them both at > > > the same time! > > This strikes me as an incredibly bad idea. Definitely don't mount > > hda2 read/write. :) > > Just out of curiosity, I mounted /dev/hda1 too. =) > Shouldn't something prevent me from doing this, or at least warn me? > > -- > Fredrik Eriksson > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
