-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Sep 14 16:41 04, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC>  You mean like rm -r / 

 MK> For sure except that will fail as soon as it deletes rm ... won't
 MK> it?  
 
Doesn't the commmand run in RAM when invoked?
If so everything goes including rm.

 MK> Never tried it and I really don't want to but I suspect it
 MK> will not end up deleting the entire partition and other mounted
 MK> drive(s)/partition(s).  Too dangerous.

Never said it'd delete the partitions but just everything in them.


 WC>  Never done it.
 WC>  Always got what I intended, path, path, path.

 MK> Right.

 WC>  Only the one stupid cp filename.txt /dev/hda1 instead of cp
 WC> filename.txt
 WC>  /mnt/directoryname after mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

 MK> Understood except /dev/hda1 which I already know you meant to
 MK> type.

 WC>  Took about three and a half - four hours to get back most everything
 WC>  but of course had a LOT of addons and updates to add to Win 98
 WC>  which took MUCH longer :-(

 MK> Yeah.  Windows sucks for sure, especially installation.  Deleting
 MK> it might be fun except that it never gets installed on any
 MK> machine here so I am only speculating on that.  I have installed
 MK> it for other people but that was many years ago and only women I
 MK> liked at the time.  Otherwise I don't get near it. However it
 MK> proved  never to be worth it, looking back.

 You have to get Zone Alarm or similar, Ad Aware or similar,
 Avast, AVG or similar, Mozilla instead of Explorer, all the fix packs
 and other sorts of stuff just to secure it :-(

 MK>> Exactly.  "rm -r" is totally dangerous as root but
also as a user
 MK>> in their home directory.  Handle with care.

 WC> That one I've used repeatedly to cleanup after reorganizing
 WC> as I got a better idea of what I wanted.

 MK> Yep.  Works great but can be deadly.

Yeah but I make the reorganized cp first and 
look twice at just what I'm telling the machine to remove.
Crossing fingers so far no mistakes there.
 
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