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Rob Blomquist wrote:
Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage.
Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at
the beginning of the disk itself, not at the beginning of a partition...
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:54, KevinO wrote:
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Rob Blomquist wrote:
Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage.
Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at
the beginning of the
030612 Vox wrote:
On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote:
rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /*
Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...
it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :)
i make it a strict rule before any command of the form 'rm -rf
Partition tables are very small things.
:)
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From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote:
030612 Vox wrote:
On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote:
rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /*
Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...
it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :)
i make it
On September 1993 plus 3572 days James Sparenberg wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote:
030612 Vox wrote:
On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote:
rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /*
Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...
it wasn't fun to
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:44 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
I learned a *lot* about Linux that night...
Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess
things up?
--
Linux: For the people, by the people.
Want to buy your
Rob Blomquist wrote:
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess
things up?
consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file
X (cdrom.img in this case) onto the primary master, I'm gonna guess in
his case it was
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:20, Jason Guidry wrote:
Rob Blomquist wrote:
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess
things up?
consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file
X (cdrom.img in this case)
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote:
Rob Blomquist wrote:
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would
mess things up?
consider yourself ranked. that command would write the contents of file
X (cdrom.img in this
On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote:
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /*
Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash...it
wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :)
Vox
--
Think of the Linux community as a niche
Arr!! I feel your pain.;-)
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
I learned a *lot* about Linux that night...
--
Jim C.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:32, Rob Blomquist wrote:
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3
server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my
KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it
quick!
One
# cat cdrom.img /dev/hda
I learned a *lot* about Linux that night...
David
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From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:32 PM
To: Expert
Subject: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
Well, I was trying to correct
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my
mp3
server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out
my
KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it
quick!
could be out of topic, but if you chmod -R, you have
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:32:01 -0700 Rob Blomquist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, what's the dumbest thing you have done?
Wanting to remove all files in a dir, including dot (.foo) files:
rm -rf .*
., .. (oops! -- recursed all the way back to /)
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3
server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my
KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it
quick!
One other time, I pointed a chmod -R at another folder, and
.
Regards
Steve Cox
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Sent: Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:32
To: Expert
Subject: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my
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