Story from the Shoot Yourself in the Foot Dept.

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Mike Szumlinski on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:41:07PM -0400:
> I got you beat....I just typed rm -rf ./* in the wrong directory....
> Which directory you might ask?
> 
> /
> 
> -Mike

For whatever reason, a version of Linux I was using once only
supported 128mb swap partitions.  I needed something like 1gb of
swap, so I started making extra swap partitions... "mkswap /dev/hda4",
<up arrow>, <backspace>, "5", <enter>.  I was happily doing my
repetative keystrokes until I finished /dev/hda10.  <up arrow>,
<backspace>, <enter>, "1"... *pause* .......
"nnnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"  My root filesystem
became swap space, and that was the end of that... =)


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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
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