Yep... I was working with a filesystem I had mounted in /slink, and I issued rm -r /etc, trying to remove the mounted etc... oops...
Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but I haven't made a mistake like that again. -Aaron On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > hello > > i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is > a bad idea to issue the following command: > > rm -R /usr/ > > i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that, > so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake. > Hopefully i will make different, and yet equally idiotic mistakes in the > future. > > thanks for listening, i just needed to vent. > > -jake > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
