From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 16aef59d for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8964E9B6BA; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:19:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6369B53F; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:19:28 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="m8NBRPE7"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7C6A29B53F; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:19:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-oi1-f174.google.com (mail-oi1-f174.google.com [209.85.167.174]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C67C93D06 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:19:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-oi1-f174.google.com with SMTP id i185so18820768oif.9 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:19:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=VZi9fUDoeED5lNzlRU76htJJYYvRIkQU/akY5o28XpA=; b=m8NBRPE7tmoPL8Ytz6pACrL+RCOMdRS/gK8mhxJlySUEuvSyX21q9FqTZrsjP7v9KI +a7+Em4ToZnTVMtxP+uAmb76ZaqhQGeT7xnRheynee3zLFG/0adgti/9KXbE/TwQxQxh 44T4KTW29achYBeJbfmgdSNHos/Pp0kkWvslQYOUZb3/u4stVIfY4a1vs3Ju6HFTvAX0 e6UL3nk+TruJm6EJX3NOE8mpRGFWKUye/VRO5l/uGpKp5dtVIO3723iwAx8wqAka5TpP /R7nIUWa+/mM5iixPueVagrtws3ITPztssELcfxCoKE5gRYSCOWAfnuGCGiTpaQCVTVx JjRA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=VZi9fUDoeED5lNzlRU76htJJYYvRIkQU/akY5o28XpA=; b=HF64EFP6//SMSrSVyiDOZvDjiK0LnIzJOsswM4PGVnQC2HJUXd5ABRDDO/9wD+OvZQ ciBok2KlKMWGOsX+lzBGioQNywdi3hTtGG0NrSyYOAybfgnTZggDPWVpHVymmElOi8qQ xhLIUqV+vJdQaEjgnkobJM5EUcUsdq/Ke2Zi40fx7FXhx+PNguDt1tmg/1uEtrJ7vqNp Bg+AtAFlVaaWFpK8u2SX1SCjZA/2mdENLBoZOOT235A8zhQfYoJan9ddkioLh1VTyLJM 3zlzqviRmC8VL2ukC4GZJQxpu1c09dyKPduAuA0G2pb/ygVo7a+5/PoLbe+7rTV/FaHF FzYw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWWkSMKzt1cEUfBmodnLCEtn7gZo9erxd+cqaAaQad44XpV9evI /c/gaU+fe+jHwkcj2wA07QZCeqq88BhQL8S2rPc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqz17dWhsE4YkDlQoXOKaexgenoYd4uCT4QPqtkipEoEEVykL9JMM7BWjPRny2TlDrzL7d8kmOG3Nk3QkUMbdcw= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:85:: with SMTP id s5mr1907368oic.3.1571869164168; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:19:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20191010205546.GA29154@minnie.tuhs.org> <31872e63-ff9a-e2d5-0642-d23ec58817bd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31872e63-ff9a-e2d5-0642-d23ec58817bd@gmail.com> From: Adam Thornton Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:19:12 -0700 Message-ID: To: Will Senn , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000029e99505959b4fa0" Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --00000000000029e99505959b4fa0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" _These_ days on the Mac, the root filesystem is mounted ro with some cute overmounting tricks such that everything mutable in normal operations lives in /System/Volumes/Data. I presume updates take the form of booting into single-user-mode and running a script to remount rw and copy, but I haven't actually looked into it. Adam On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:45 AM Will Senn wrote: > On 10/23/19 10:08 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote: > > More than one of us have done that in our lifetime ;) > > > > On 10/23/2019 1:13 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote: > >> "sudo rm -rf /tmp /*" > > > Oh yeah. Did something similar on my Powerbook back around Panther: > > sudo rm -fr /bin > > I heart my Macs (all of 'em), it was just a matter of copying back the > bin directory or reinstalling over the existing files or grabbing the > timemachine copy or somesuch... whatever it was, it was 20 minutes of > frustration, then all good. Try that on linux... no, don't :), unless > you're doing timeshift or something similar and just wanna have some fun. > > Will > > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF > > --00000000000029e99505959b4fa0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
_These_ days on the Mac, the root filesystem is mount= ed ro with some cute overmounting tricks such that everything mutable in no= rmal operations lives in /System/Volumes/Data.=C2=A0 I presume updates take= the form of booting into single-user-mode and running a script to remount = rw and copy, but I haven't actually looked into it.

Adam

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:45 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/23/19 10:08 AM, Ar= thur Krewat wrote:
> More than one of us have done that in our lifetime ;)
>
> On 10/23/2019 1:13 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> "sudo rm -rf /tmp /*"
>
Oh yeah. Did something similar on my Powerbook back around Panther:

sudo rm -fr /bin

I heart my Macs (all of 'em), it was just a matter of copying back the =
bin directory or reinstalling over the existing files or grabbing the
timemachine copy or somesuch... whatever it was, it was 20 minutes of
frustration, then all good. Try that on linux... no, don't :), unless <= br> you're doing timeshift or something similar and just wanna have some fu= n.

Will


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