On 05/05 02:05 , Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > >> Mdadm is pretty good about warning you if you try something stupid. > > > > True; but I've still managed to blow away data accidentally using it. :) > > (Fortunately, I still had a copy of the data on another disk's partition; I > > sync'ed the wrong partitions together). > > Was that back in the old raidtab days?
No, somewhat more recent. 3-4 years ago I think. I think I typo'ed the mdadm command and sync'ed /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb3 or something equally stupid. No real loss, I fixed it right away; but one can probably contrive a disastrous situation. There is value in that kind of power tho; as the saying goes "Unix does not stop you from doing stupid things, because stopping you from doing stupid things would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
