From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 1:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tank.skynet.be (tank.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3211548E for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by tank.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id KAA02986; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:05 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199912150244.SAA20895@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199912150244.SAA20895@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:56:35 +0100 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Tony.Maher@eBioinformatics.com (Tony Maher) From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Speaking of moving files Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:44 PM -0800 1999/12/14, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > There... easy enough??? fsdb is not that big of a deal as long as you > stay with the basic commands of cd, ls, chown, chmod, chgrp, rm and ln. > It's the ones like uplink downlink chgen that can hose you up but good. > > If it looks like a shell command, smells like a shell command and the > man page description reads like a command it behaves pretty much like > the command. I had always been terrified to even look at the man page for fsdb, fearing that even that amount of arrogance could permanently hose up the filesystem. ;-) Seriously, thanks for the enlightenment! Next time I'm on a seriously hosed system, perhaps this information can be used to help me save my butt. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message