Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

[Jason Guidry]

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 his main hard drive.


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