From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 31 09:45:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16188 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:45:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alinga.newcastle.edu.au (alinga.newcastle.edu.au [134.148.160.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16183 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from youdaman@reincarnate.com) Received: from reincarnate.com (c9707010@peach1.newcastle.edu.au [134.148.140.219]) by alinga.newcastle.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA23487; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 02:44:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <35EAD2F1.52A361AC@reincarnate.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 02:44:34 +1000 From: Stewart Heckenberg Reply-To: c9707010@alinga.newcastle.edu.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Poulin CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting/unmounting disks References: <3.0.3.32.19980831111741.0090b4b0@honk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Martin Poulin wrote: > A word of caution to anyone considering playing around > with mount/umount without really understanding what you > are doing - > > DON'T!!! I'll do as I damn well please. Besides, that's the fun of FreeBSD - I can make one little modification to a file and there goes my pooter. Now that's fun (as long as it doesn't happen too often). :) > Thankfully I had my important files backed up, but > boy-oh-boy what a weekend it's been. Backups, schmackups, don'tcha just love re-installing everything and starting from scratch. Go on, you know you like it. > I learned a few things though, so it wasn't a total loss. > (like don't unmount your /usr directory - I don't know > how I managed to do that, but I did.) Now that sounds fun :) > 2 installs later (don't ask) and I have my system almost > back to where it was. Ready to do it all again! Wahey! :) Ciao, Stewart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message