Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 20:55:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002175517.GA2230@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20041002165155.GP35869@seekingfire.com> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <200410021123.59811.max@love2party.net> <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org> <20041002165155.GP35869@seekingfire.com>
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On 2004-10-02 10:51, Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Sean Farley wrote: > > Why not default on? root will not run 'rm -rf /' on purpose very often. > > Once will be enough. :) Also, when and why would someone want to do > > this? > > 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. And a hell of a lot faster too. This is the *only* reason why I initially wrote this.
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