Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 09:06:36 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@bsd.unix.sh> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of moving files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912260903050.3158-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199912150029.QAA20326@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Cc:ed to -chat where this seems to belong now. Yes, everyone should be familiar with fsdb (you should have seen the fear on a coworker's face the other day when I said something about fixing a filesystem with fsdb in jest. It was straight unadulterated terror.) The mere mention of this tool makes Junior level administrators cower in fear. Just for that reason it makes it the best tool for intimidation. -Pat -- Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net lynch@bsdunix.net lynch@unix.sh lynch@blowfi.sh Systems Administrator Rush Networking On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Ben Rosengart wrote in list.freebsd-current: > > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > > I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in > > > > /usr that wasn't in /. For example, disklabel -e doesn't work without > > > > vi -- which is in /usr. > > > > > > Good example of something else that would be great to have in /bin. > > > > No, really bad example. > > > > # export EDITOR=ed > > # disklabel -e da0s1 > > 759 > > _ > > > > Works perfectly well. But for chown, there is no functional > > equivalent in /bin or /sbin that I'm aware of. > > A person who really knew fsdb could do it /bin/fsdb, infact it's > not really that hard... as fsdb has chown, chgrp, chmod, chtype chname and > all the others built in as native commands ;-) :-) :-) > > > -- > Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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