Help me install a program 4718
Jack Ouzzi
It is unfortunate that you have gotten some of the replies you have gotten here. Some people are just rude and have no understanding of what it is like to learn something new. Either they forgot what they were like...or they were born with expert knowledge of unix systems embedded in their brain...
Well, you will learn who is rude and who is not...you got good replies also...
Of course they are not. Where do you get that imnpression from? This is not a helpdesk! What a newsgroup is is what its charter says it is for...
How to test if RAID is working with loop device? Look what I did: 1 - Created 3 virtual disks dd if=-dev-zero of...
I tried using "make menuconfig" and got the following: storage:-usr-src-kernel-source-2.4.27# make menuconfig rm -f include-asm ( cd include ; ln...
At any rate, the differences:
Of course. Thedev-loop? devices are part of the RAID (not the whole RAID) so each would only contain part of the filesystem...not enough for debugfs (or...
Yes, becomming root in any way is dangerous. While root you can do anything so anything you tell the computer to do while you are root, it will do it...most times without even asking if you are sure. For instance, the command "rm -rf" will destroy everything, but only if you do it as root.
However, if you run your system as a normal user and only become root when necissary it does two things:
* It keeps most programs running as a user account that can do minimal damage to the system if a bug tries to frag your computer. * By making you become root temporarily it adds a bit of thought about what you are going to do next. It focus your mind on the fact that you are now becomming someone that can do ANYTHING on this computer and you better be careful.
Now, does this mean you don't need to be careful as a non-root user? Hell no. In my system the stuff I have access to is actually more important to me than the running system (of course this is different on multi-user systems and servers but I'm talking about at home) because it represents hours of my hard work on things that matter to me. I can frag a lot of hard work in a matter of seconds...in fact I recently accidentially deleted something I really wanted to keep and now it is gone forever. I would rather have to rebuild my entire system and have that file than the current state of things. I'm a musician and have deleted recordings I made that I now can't remember...that file I am talking about is one of those (about 40 minutes of dinking around with ideas that I liked and can't remember). I have hours and hours of work in documentation of my family history that I really do not want to loose.
So, what do I do? I back things up on CD and sometimes tape. Not everyone has tape drives at home...I got lucky and was given 3 and a whole stack of tapes. CD and-or DVD works fine even if it doesn't hold as much info. Whereas I do not have a full system backup...I do have my family history backed up on CDRW for instance.