Peter Onion Peter.Onion@btinternet.com writes:
I do hope that the wrecklessness with which people are treating other peoples machines on the IRC channel at the moment doesn't result in the loss of anyones important data.
As far as I'm concerned getting a less than expert user to edit /etc/fstab via instructions on IRC is asking for trouble.
I've no idea what's going on on IRC, but I wouldn't expect anyone to lose data through editing fstab. They might make it temporarily inconvenient to get at, but that's hardly the same thing.
Of course, all your _important_ data is backed up anyway. Right?