On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage.

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