[ale] Stupid Question Time

[Geoffrey Myers]

gcs8 wrote:
> 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.

It appears to me that the OP was not terribly experienced, thus I would 
not post such a solution, as you note, the sarcasm can be missed.

> 
> On Feb 3, 2012 10:55 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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> <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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"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson