Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:07:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@durham> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960813090231.2545E-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <4910.839936868@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > tar -cvf /dev/rfd0a /
> >
> > This has utterly trashed your boot device (and / lies there.) I seriuosly
> > doubt that you can do anything but reinstall.
>
> Probably the right conclusion, but for the wrong reasons.
>
> >What happened is that you have overwritten the filesystem layout from the
> >same filesystem you were "backing up" and at that *while* you were backing
> >it up. There shouldn't be anything useful on /dev/rfd0a.
>
> Not unless these systems are running with their root filesystems on
> floppies, no. :-) That would be possible, of course, but insane as
> even a stand-alone system would want to use MFS for its root
> filesystem given that a floppy would be far too unreliable.
>
> Jordan
>
How about:
tar -cvf / dev/rfd0a / (while sitting in / )
I'm not sure you can open / as a plain file, but,
I'm not prepared to verify... 8-) .
-Jim Durham
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