On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:59:32AM +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> How would you feel if, after you had walked your son through setting
> up a Gentoo box for a server, you  added a drive and typed..
> mkreiserfs /dev/sda2
> (sda2 was /)

on a freshly installed machine?
lucky guy.

how about you trying to fsck the disk, and typing mkfs?
whooops!

or another favourite:
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 mbaehr   mbaehr       4096 Oct  1 01:43 ~
$ rm -r ~
... why is this taking so long? ...
whooops!

rmdir is a very helpfull command...

greetings, martin.
-- 
looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training,
sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world.
--
pike programmer   travelling and working in europe            open-steam.org
unix system-      bahai.or.at                       iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at
administrator     (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org                  is.schon.org
Martin B�hr       http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/

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