Phillip Jones wrote:
Is it possible/has it happened that a person using Linux ,Unix or even
Command line DOS in windows that have 10-20 years experience is capable
of making a mistakes and wiping out their drive they are working from?
Yes, this happened once for me, when starting with Linux. My plan was to
chmod a bigger set of files and also wanted to chmod the files, starting
with ".", so my command was:
chmod -R user:group * .*
Unfortunately this also matched ".." and so started to recursively chmod
anything one level above the directory, where I was.
As it is always possible to do mistakes, rule number one on *nix systems
is: Always do your daily work with a *unprivileged* user account. A
unprivileged user is never able to delete the whole hard drive.
CU
Manuel
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