On 17/03/2017 18:24, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > 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. > > 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.... > > Then I saw symlinks directly pointing to /usr/lib... (for example) > right into my new root...
How on earth did you manage that? Provide examples with full background info. Sounds like you might have been monkeying with PREFIX and not setting proper chroots, or similar > > What is a recommended way to do what I am trying to do without > a) deleting anything outside the old root > b) doing it not TOOO SLOW > c) without leaving filesystem debris somewhere (for example after > a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 count=1 bs=4096 > d) anything else I forgot to think about Yeah, you forgot the part where you realise we can't see and think what you see and think. As Grant said, we don't really know what you are up to from the given information. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
