[ale] Stupid Question Time

[gcs8]

I did say it would nuke it from orbit. And you should always have your data
backed up anyway and have a machine state saved.

Apparently sarcasm does not work in email.
On Feb 3, 2012 10:55 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:

> gcs8 wrote:
> > Sudo rm -rf /
> >
> > That will fix it but it is the nuke it from orbit fix.
>
> What?  You're talking about destroying the whole system.  That would
> attempt to remove everything under / .  You sure you don't want to
> rethink that post?
>
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Do a 'ls /media/sdc1' and see if anything is there. If not. no need
> >     to rmdir. If you plug back in the same drive(s) they will get
> >     mounted at the same location.
> >
> >     On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Nolan
> >     <michaeldnolan at gmail.com <mailto:michaeldnolan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         (Sorry about the sleep deprived post last night, misspelled
> >         words are
> >         always a dead giveaway the next morning...)
> >
> >         And thanks once again for responses, I know this stuff is
> simpleton
> >         level for most of you....
> >
> >         I was reading in another thread about "root" (which was _way_
> >         over my
> >         head).... but I'd like to get a critique about the correctness
> >         of the
> >         ugly commands below and my thought process in getting rid of the
> >         offending empty dir's.
> >
> >         Also, is there any way to search the Ale.org archives other than
> >         using
> >         Google advanced search or "[target] site:ale.org <http://ale.org
> >"
> >
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$ rmdir sdc1
> >         rmdir: failed to remove `sdc1': Permission denied
> >
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$ ls -l
> >         total 16
> >         drwxr-xr-x 16 mike mike 4096 2012-02-02 10:15 2T_ext3
> >         drwxrwxr-x  3 mike mike    0 2012-01-27 08:36 pogoplug
> >         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:02 sdc1
> >         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:03 sdc3
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$
> >
> >         Obviously root owns the two dir's
> >
> >         so:
> >
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$ chown mike /media/sdc1
> >         chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdc1': Operation not
> permitted
> >
> >         so:
> >
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$  sudo su
> >
> >         root at Pappy:/media#
> >
> >         root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc1
> >         root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc3
> >         root at Pappy:/media# exit
> >         exit
> >         mike at Pappy:/media$ ls
> >         2T_ext3  pogoplug
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> >
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