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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:56:54 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
Message-ID:  <16735.12854.834510.62812@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>

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In <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> typed:
> John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday
> about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
> 
> His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
> rm(1) of FreeBSD:

Aw, but watching how systems fail when you do "rm -rf /" after you
take them out of service is so entertaining.

	<mike
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