On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: ...
Exactly. Who would expect `rm -rf /` to actually succeed? It's not only dangerous, it doesn't work in a useful way ;-)
If one is thinking about `rm -rf /`, `newfs` is probably the right answer.
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newfs only works if the root is not mounted because otherwise the device is locked. (Hmm is GEOM too anti foot shooting? But can't you reenable foot-shooting via sysctl?) whereas `rm -rf /` works allwsys
:-)
Anyway. Check your karma.
I've managed to remove large parts of my (and other) various systems several times. Every time this happend I where not concentrated or felt in dangerous safety.
Once you realize that there is no seatbelt, you make less errors and have better backups.
But many thanks to try to make FreeBSD and its operators better!
Bye/2
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