On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:57:15PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > But back in 1993 when I first started using Linux I was using dd on my > Sun to rawwrite Linux images onto floppy disks to take home, and I > accidentally put the dd output to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/fd0 > ... goodbye, HD partitions. Hello, reinstall.
Sounds like my first time using tar... I didn't quite grok how the "f" command worked and ended up writing my tarfile to /dev/hda. It bombed in fairly short order and, luckily, hda1 was a FAT partition with MSDOS running on it (this was back in '94 or '95) and, after formatting it, I decided to try the MSDOS "unformat" command. I got lucky and managed to save the content of the disk, although about half the filenames in the root directory were trashed. Hopefully, that's close enough to 'rm -rf /' that I'll never have to do the other. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
