🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Saunderson (saundo@schroedinger.adelaide.maptek.com.au) spake thusly:
: sjm@labyrinth.net.au (Steve Merrifield) writes:
: [spurious thread lengthening]
: > : Q : What's the output of "rm -rf *"?
: > : A : 8-O
: > Depends on where you run it from, and under which permission <g>
: What, you're not doing 'rm -rf /.*' as root?
: But that's what they told me to do at MSCE training!

Heard that one read out as (explaining to a clueless newbie) "read mail,
real fast, all of it" - ROTFL.

btw, when I upgraded recently I did rm -rf * from / and timed it. 400Mb 
disk gave about 2mins50sec for a pretty-much standard redhat installation.
Of course, I had backed first, twice, and checked a third time ;)

but to get back ontopic, I reckon that 1/2Gig is the minimum these days. I'm
in the throes of filling my 4.3Gb, but I expect it to last me for quite 
a while. Basically, get as large a disk as you can afford and you can't go
too far wrong.

jcm
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