Hm. After I'm done with the slack and Debian distros on my system, I'll
do a rm -Rf / and see what happens :). (I've only got them there until
Wednesday, because I'm going to use them to demonstrate how to connect to
the Internet :).
- Mike
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Jack wrote:
J>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 03:51:17 -0500
J>From: Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
J>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gevaerts Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
J>Cc: linux-newbie Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
J>Subject: Re: Strange behavior
J>
J>On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
J>->On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
J>->
J>->> I'm wondering something here... I was playing an MP3 file the other day,
J>->> and I didn't like it... so I deleted it. I was amazed, because the MP3
J>->> play played the file clear until the end. Why? I deleted the file before
J>->> 20 seconds was up (it was about a 4 minute songfile)... I know that it
J>->> doesn't cache up that far ahead. Why did it still play? Is it supposed
J>->> to do this?
J>->
J>->This is normal. A file doesn't get deleted until it has been closed by all
J>->its users.
J>->
J>->> - Mike
J>->
J>->Frank
J>
J>
J>I once heared from a sysadm that it would let you remove the remove command.
J>
J>rm -rf /bin/rm
J>
J>
J>He also said he that he was upgrading his hard drivers and distruabtion on a
J>sun system and decided to do a rm -rf / as root and everything ran fine for
J>about 10 minutes, after that he said programs started to look/try to load files
J>from disk which where not there. He said after that all hell broke lose and
J>had to flip the switch on his box.
J>
J>I've never tried it personally, when I decide to put a recent dis on this
J>system though that is the way i'll do it.
J>
J>Also there is a command called sync which flushes the file buffer to disk, in
J>the man page is says it only flushes the 'dirty' blocks to disk, and takes a
J>few more seconds to write the clean blocks.
J>
J>I'm not really sure what the differance is between dirty and clean, but my
J>understand is that it takes all file that are in memory and forces them to be
J>writen to disk.
J>
J>
J>
