Re: Linux History 101 :)

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:34:47 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Paul Wouters wrote:

> > From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
>
> Benedict? :)
>
> > 0.11 (December) had the first floppy driver, and was the point where I
> > started doing linux developement under itself. Quite as well, as I
> > trashed my minix386 partition by mistake when trying to autodial
> > /dev/hd2.
>
> I feel much better now. I felt bad for doing a filesystem check with
> mke2fs (twice!)

For a long time my mke2fs and mkswap were suid nobody after mkswaping my
root fs. At least you can recover from a mkswap on ext2.

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