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...ystem needs to access /dev/sda1 (I call from now /dev/sda1 device which "/" filesystem lives on), and once /dev/sda1 is deleted there will be no further hard drive write operations. There will be no way for system to access anything under /, which will cause "rm" command to fail fataly. I will kickstart install centos 7 in a moment and will do exactly this: cd / rm -rf / (the first command is to avoid even "can not get CWD", which shouldn't matter ;-) So, I'll see in a moment how much I'll loose on the drive, and will it or will it not be sufficient to r...

I'm in a situation where I'm going to have to deploy a rack of servers in an unmanned location in another country. On rare occasions, I've had systems that would not recover gracefully from a warm reboot and needed the power cycled. Years ago, I had such a device from APC, but haven't needed one in a long time since all my locations are staffed. I'd welcome any

The Wine development release 3.0-rc6 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze. The source is available from the following locations: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/3.0/wine-3.0-rc6.tar.xz http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/3.0/wine-3.0-rc6.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available

On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:56 pm, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:33 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Excerpt: >> Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially >> perma-brick your system. > > Yes, I kind of like "rm -rf /". If my memory doesn't fail me, long ago it > was one of the tricky questions in sysadmin

The Wine development release 1.7.2 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Right-to-left text layout improvements. - NTLM and Negotiate authentication for RPC over HTTP. - More glyphs in the built-in Wingdings font. - Better system tray support in the Mac driver. - Activation context improvements. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from

The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Many translation updates. - A lot of bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2-rc3.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.2-rc3.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various

The Wine development release 1.3.25 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Rewrite of the audio support, using the Win7 architecture. - Old-style sound drivers for Jack, NAS and ESD are removed. - Graphics driver architecture changes for the DIB engine. - Improved handling of the shell recycle bin. - Better joystick support in DirectInput. -

The Wine development release 1.1.12 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Some simple 64-bit apps should now run. - Support for subpixel font rendering. - 64-bit code generation in the IDL compiler. - New version of the Gecko engine. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: