Re: Emergency Editors (was Stabble Tag move)

["Devon H. O'Dell " <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:51:35PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:16:57PM +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> >
> >>After a UPS blowup (and I mean smoke and leakage) a part of / and /etc 
> >>was corrupted leaving my fstab , rc.conf and some other stuff crippled. 
> >>In my case I did a boot with the dragonfly cd , mounted the partition 
> >>and restored a backup.
> >
> >
> >OK, why can't you "mount /dev/usr_device /usr" or do a fsck first?
> >
> >Joerg
> 
> It isn't about what we can (and often *must*) do.
> 
> One can reach London from Paris via Calais - or Hong Kong.
> 
> It is about having more economical basic tools.
> 
> - but let's drop it.
> 
> I have mine.
> 
> Bill
>

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with just learning how to use ed? It's
on every OS under the sun, learning it will make you that much more
able to administer broken machines of any UNIX-like descent (and 
Plan 9 too!)

--Devon

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