> Wish to share some wisdom gathered by interacting with friends and > college juniors - > IMHO, its very dangerous to include working examples for commands like > dd, fdisk, parted, mkfs, grub-install, (rawwrite, fixmbr (Windows)) etc. An > uninitiated one might just copy-paste the command on his console in the > hope > of getting things to work. I've frequently observed that people don't like
Point taken, may be we should provide non-workable command (which hen copy-pasted will definitely return an error like : dd if=<source> of=<dest> bs=<blocksize> and some explaination like source will be something like /dev/hda, /dev/sda etc ... (with suggestions to read man pages) I'll be more careful going forward — Mandar D Vaze _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
