[X Newbies] How the Grinch Stole 45GB of My Hard Drive

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/30/02 16:05, "Fred Mallett" <fredm at famece.com> wrote:

> 
> You will get many permission errors if you are not root, thus you may
> not find where the stuff is hiding unless you enable root login, and use
> that account.

I would suggest not logging in as root, but using sudo instead. If you
forget you have logged in as root, then make a mistake, it's reinstall time.


Kirk

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