On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:19:07 +0000 Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Litt <[email protected]> writes: [clip] > > With excellent backups, rm -rf / or even dd if=/dev/zero > > of=/dev/sda1 is correctable with a few hours of work, on the > > premises, with only resources on the premises. > > A somewhat seriously wrong conception about the relation between / > (the root of the filesystem name tree) and /dev/sda1 (some partition > of a mass storage device) seems to exist here. The reality is "there > is none" unless the system happens to be configured such > that /dev/sda1 is mounted as / Come on, Rainer, it's obvious your last sentence is assumed in my statement. What, did I have to completely specify it just to make the obvious point that wiping the root dir's device is correctable from a good backup? SteveT Steve Litt February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
