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Firewire and Linux?
aozilla asks: "I was just at Pricewatch, and I noticed that 80 gig firewire drives are available for only $200. My good old IBM Deskstar just crashed, so I'm in the market for a new hard drive, and I'd love to go with Firewire. External, hot-swappable and the ability to have more than 2 devices without significant slowdown are the main features I'd like on top of what I get from my IDE drives. I'd like to hear from those who have experience running firewire on Linux. How good is the driver support? Is hot-swappability really supported (just umount and unplug, plug and mount)? Are there any recommendations for PCI Firewire cards for Linux? How many drives can reasonably fit before power becomes an issue (I assume the less expensive drives obtain power from the port)? My main goals are capacity, cost, and convenience. Speed is not too much of an issue, and I'm more a fan of automated and explicit backups rather than RAID."
No, you need to crack it out of the case, put it on an IDE bus, and format it. Then put it back in. Better yet, just buy a note pad and a box of pens.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
It was just the User data in a home directory.
According to the Unix philosophy, that's the only data that a User has access to. So it's the only data vulnerable in a Unix system.
Of course, it's also the only data on the system that's irreplacable, and in fact important to anybody but the sysadmin.
Oh well. That's Unix, that's cheesy nine-bit security....