This reminds me of a true classic I once did a couple of years ago. I'd
managed to get my machine up and running on a dual boot - *plus* I even had
access to my 2Gb of DOS stuff by getting them to mount on /dosc and /dosd.
However, I decided that I needed to reinstall the copy of Slackware I was
using. I spent a couple of hours carefully choosing everything I thought I'd
need from the linux partition and copying it to an archive in /dosd. Then I
cheerfully logged in as root and typed:
rm -rf /*
Read the above paragraph again, bearing in mind the fact that I hadn't taken
a backup for two years...
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 7:14 PM
Subject: Well, I'm now a "sysadmin"
> Well, I just did something REALLY stupid:
> "rm -rf * /mnt/floppy" while in my home directory.
> Not only did I nuke the floppy, I nuked EVERYTHING in my home directory,
> including every subdirectory. (didn't nuke . directories though, thank
> goodness! <G>)
> My boss (the "head geek" here at Chattanooga Online internet) says that
> qualifies me for the title "sysadmin." ;-)
> Oh, well...nothing serious lost. Just my mail spool and all my desktop
> shortcuts. Too bad there's not something like the "recover" command in
Novell
> or the trashcan in Windows where you can recover stuff... :-)
>
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