You need to delete a netware partition which contains a segment of the root volume, on a 1000+ user server, on a Friday afternoon, before a magazine goes to print, to fully understand the word, humility.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: dave mallery [mailto:dmallery@;cia-g.com] Sent: Monday, 21 October 2002 7:32 AM To: Debian UserList Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: which half are you in? hi list! there's a saying that all people are in two groups: those who have done an rm -R * in root and those who have not done it yet. last evening, i joined the former group after six years of linux and a lifetime of computing. one learns vast humility in milliseconds. no matter how fast you hit a control/c, almost everything is gone... there are no programs left to run! unbelieveably, i did this rm -R as i was cleaning up after a new system backup. i had been using mondo, but the mindi portion of it had stopped working a few weeks ago and was still dead. (in testing, these things seem to clean up after a few weeks of upgrades) this backup proc basically does the following: dpkg --get selections | gzip > dpkg-list.gz a full tar of /home another of /root and /etc. then writes the stuff to a cd-r. so, i did a minimal woody install from my cds. (fortunately i keep a hard copy of df taped to the box!) then i edited the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing and let the minimal install (no tasksel) finish via dselect. (over the net, it took an hour and a half) then: gunzip dpkg-list | dpkg --set-selections then another dselect upgrade... it took all night. (my average bandwidth is 10kb/sec) then in the morning, after all the installation settled out: tar -xvf HOMEbackup.tar from the / directory. it restored my /home account. then tar -xvf ROOTbackup.tar /root tar -xvf ROOTbackup.tar /etc and i was back, bereft only of my bookmarks because i didn't back up ~/.galeon. you can find this and other procs in something called debian-backup.org (??) lost my bookmarks! i just sat there in awe last night and this morning as my system was reconstituted from nothing... hundreds of apps installed without mishap, all at the latest level. and up came gnome; up came my desktop, just as it was before the moment of truth! i'd just want to say a heart-felt thank you to all who make this wonderful thing called debian. dave ps: where is gnome-terminal? -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~. _ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windows! ^^^^^ _\_v free at last! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
