[wplug] new HDD

[Brandon Kuczenski]

> the usage "df <filename>" gives you the disk usage on the partition 
> where <filename> exists.  Since the *file* /dev/hda (the device file, 
> not the actually partition) exists on your root partition, it will 
> return the same results as /dev/hdb.
> 
> Check this out:
> 
> % df /dev/hda
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda                497829    225410    246717  48%
> 
> % df /dev/hdb
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb                497829    225410    246717  48%
> 
> (and for giggles)
> % df /dev/mouse
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mouse              497829    225410    246717  48%
> 

I see.. thanks.  I was a bit alarmed, but I looked in /var/log/messages 
and I saw that it spotted my drive and named it /dev/hdb.  So I pressed 
onward.  I then did something dumb, but have recovered: as root, I entered
'cp -rf /home/* /temp1' where temp1 was my temporary mount point for my 
new drive.  It copied everything, but with root as the 0wnz0r.  (I also 
stomped all the date-stamps). 

It has since been fixed.  Except all my date stamps are for today, about 
35 minutes ago.  And, now I know about cp -rfp.

Good thing I'm still the only user on this system... hehehe.

-Brandon