Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:17:33 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>, philip_milne@il.us.swissbank.com (Philip Milne), hackers@freebsd.org, armando_ferreira@il.us.swissbank.com, charlie_conklin@il.us.swissbank.com Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <57g25q9vf6.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:47:48 -0700 References: <4910.839936868@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > > > 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. Ehh, either I'm missing something really stupid or everyone else is :-) tar -cvf /dev/rfd0a / is going to backup the / partition onto a floppy, what's wrong with that? About the worst that could happen is that rfd0a doesn't exist and you create a tar archive, at which point tar will say something like "/usr/bin/tar: /dev/rfd0 is the archive; not dumped" or you fill a floppy (doesn't gnu tar prompt for new floppies anyway). I certainly wouldn't expect this command to trash my / partition. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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