From: Ari Lemmke (arl@cs.hut.fi)
Date: 03/07/93


From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke)
Subject: Re: Linux Admin Horror Story...
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 01:29:36 GMT

In article <1993Mar4.213038.22740@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
: "rm libc.so.s"

        Have statically linked programs .. once "less lib.so.N.n > lib.so.N"
        helped. ;-)

In article <KFOGEL.93Mar6150336@mark1.cs> kfogel@mark1.cs (Karl Fogel) writes:
: Next time, DON'T WAIT FOR THE SYNC!!! You might be able to
: save yourself if you hit the reboot button really quickly...

        Might corrupt your system too ;-) so there's a chance your
        system won't boot ...

        Another nice horror story .. once did N times "fdisk /dev/sda",
        and really tired .. then I typed "fdisk /dev/hda" .. and
        edited the table and quit saved it ;-) .. and just after
        that realized what happened ;-) .. did not find partition
        table from the kernel easily .. and after some minutes
        said just 'df' and checked FS sizes. It helped that I knew
        partition 1 started about cyl 10 and there was also a hole
        between partiton 2 and 3 (bad blocks ...). So testing/booting/
        testing/booting few times and everything ok ;-)

: Karl Fogel ("Leg of Lark") <> My opinions are not responsible for

        arl