Hi
i was not trying to see the contents of the hard disk . I was
"hacking" and seeing what happens when i execute a series of commands and
if linux was secure.
In short, I was trying to crash the system but... alas I
succeeded.
I don't have any linux partitions other than swap ,/boot,/. My FAT
partitions are safe . Is it possible to do it from *windoze*. My data was
in my home directory so that's gone.
thanx anyway for your reply
bye
cheedu
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Sridhar saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> Phew ......
>
> >$mail root < /sbin/dump /dev/hda9
> > ...or something like that
> > /* hda9 is my / partition of 2.5 GB */
>
> In effect, you catted all the contents of your hard disk and mailed root
> with it? Extremely efficient way to crash a system, I must say.
>
> >Then I logged in as root and it said there was mail for me
> >When I executed the command "mail" it gave all kinds of nonsense about
> >errors about some inodes etc so I panicked and gave
>
> You got what you asked for - a dump of your root partition. You should
> have saved it to a file and used vi / pico to view it rather than mail
> root with it.
>
> >#df
> >This said my / partition had 1.2 GB used but 0 MB free!!
>
> I ~think~ df doesn't count space in your mailbox, am not sure.
>
> > This is fairly long mail, but what's the probz. Should I reinstall
> >or is there a way to get back the data, some of which are very important?
>
> Considering you have multiple (/, /boot etc) partitions (rather than a /
> and a swap partition) - I hope you also have a /usr. Try upgrading and see
> what happens.
>
> In any case, if you had <note past tense pls> anything on /dev/hda9 it's
> gone - as effectively as if you'd applied amrutanjan for a
> headache. (poye poche, poyinde, choligaachi, it's gone, gaayab ...)
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian + President, CAUCE India + www.india.cauce.org
> Stopping Spam In India + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Spammers are Losers
> --
> In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals.
> You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.
>
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