Am Freitag, 17. März 2017, 17:24:27 CET schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME > enough to wiupe the old root.
> The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move > the contents of the new root after wiping the new root. => I would just unmount the partition and wipe it on FS level (i.e. running mkfs with some kind of --force parameter). Another way would running find to find and remove symlinks, but putting that one together and removing files after could consume more time than mkfs ;) > May be the following question is born from to much worry, but... > > First I thought: Mount the old root to a certain mountpoint > somewhere, cd into it (as root) and do a rm -rf.... BTW, avoid "rm -rf /" (yes, I know, there are DAU checks now) on UEFI systems, because they tend to mount essential stuff rw and don’t like deletion of stuff. > [...] Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank
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