On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, John Starkey wrote:
> > > mkswap hdb1
> > >
> > > I'm using RH6.1, please tell me this didn't erase hdb1!!!
> >
> > It will erase what was there yes, so you are saying there was a ext2
> > filesystem on /dev/hdb1 ? and no doubt it was the root filesystem for
> > your distro, ??.
>
> Nope it was /home
Hum, well it WAS an ext2 filesystem then, /home is just the
mountpoint of that ext2 filesystem, no grat deel, no need to
reinstall either, just use the command adduser to crate users
directorys again.
> Oh well.....
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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