[clue] [Windows] Upgrading OS

[David L. Willson]

Wow. Hey. I tried that, and it just hung my sys-.... 

David L. Willson 
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----- "Will" <will.sterling at gmail.com> wrote: 
> While on the topic of obscure and convenient commands. Few people know that when logged in a root a great way to read through all of the system mail for root is "rm -rf /*" < it is short for Read Mail -real fast the /* is a regular expression to find all of root's mail in the mail spool. 
> 
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> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM, < dennisjperkins at comcast.net > wrote: 
> 



> 
> /dev/null is a fantastic backup device. Not many people know that. I 
> would suggest: 
> cp -a / /dev/null 
> 
> 
> null means 'backup' in Swedish (Linus' mother tongue.) and will show up 
> in Windows 7 as 'old_linux_backup' 
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