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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 1998 02:44:34 +1000
From:      Stewart Heckenberg <youdaman@reincarnate.com>
To:        Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting/unmounting disks
Message-ID:  <35EAD2F1.52A361AC@reincarnate.com>
References:  <3.0.3.32.19980831111741.0090b4b0@honk.org>

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Martin Poulin wrote:

> A word of caution to anyone considering playing around
> with mount/umount without really understanding what you
> are doing -
>
> DON'T!!!

I'll do as I damn well please. Besides, that's the fun of FreeBSD - I
can make one little modification to a file and <KABOOM> there goes my
pooter. Now that's fun (as long as it doesn't happen too often).     :)

> Thankfully I had my important files backed up, but
> boy-oh-boy what a weekend it's been.

Backups, schmackups, don'tcha just love re-installing everything and
starting from scratch. Go on, you know you like it.

> I learned a few things though, so it wasn't a total loss.
> (like don't unmount your /usr directory - I don't know
> how I managed to do that, but I did.)

Now that sounds fun :)

> 2 installs later (don't ask) and I have my system almost
> back to where it was.

Ready to do it all again! Wahey! :)

Ciao,
Stewart


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