From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 23:17:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14703 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14694 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22166; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:10:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980629001017.51669@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:10:17 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Ludwig Pummer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) References: <3.0.3.32.19980628103743.031f1c54@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980628103743.031f1c54@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; from Ludwig Pummer on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 10:37:43AM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 10:37:43AM -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 09:22 AM 6/28/98 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > >I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from > >FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO > >a directory on my FreeBSD drive. > > You could also use mtools (package or port), which preserves long filenames > and doesn't require a partition to be constantly mounted. And is (I believe) more stable. > >Now, for the crashable part - I have an OS/2 boot manager partition on > >/dev/wd0s1. Just for kicks, I tried: > > > >mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /tmp > That's what you get for mounting a non-dos partition with mount_msdos... And doing stuff as root. There are many ways you could crash a FreeBSD box as root. root can do anything. It's assumed that the root user either knows what they're doing, or has suitable backups. Crashing any Unix box as root is not news. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message