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I wiped out the home drive on a server I was n00b admin for
within my first week of root access. Had to stay up all night
recovering from tape, but I sure did learn about being careful
from the root shell!

> Someone (Dow?) wrote that the safest way for beginners is to
> su to root and mount/copy from there.  I would posit that
> beginners should NOT be given the suggestion to act as root 
> unnecessarily as a mistyped command can do enormous damage.



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