Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

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On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 16:19 +0200, suvayu ali wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But then what do we say the function of rm is. Does it erase the files
> > that are its arguments. It also does not erase the file anymore than
> > format does.
> 
> The man page says:
> 
> rm - remove files or directories
> 
> I think you can call that accurate. :)
> 

Remove and erase are synonyms. The people who argue that format does not
erase the files would have to argue that rm does not remove files.
So for them the man page would not be accurate.


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