Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:51:55 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002165155.GP35869@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <200410021123.59811.max@love2party.net> <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org>
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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.
-T
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