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[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, Mar 26th 2009 at 20:30 -0000, quoth Tom Horsley:

=>Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when
=>someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things
=>could happen.

Years ago I had a client who ran out of disk. I eventually found out that 
he was backing up to /dev/hda3 but had misspelled it as /dev/hea3 which 
didn't exist. So, as root, he was writing to a plain file in dev. :-)

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