Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:33:36 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002083336.GA10355@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr>
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:19:28AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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: I'm not so much worried about 'rm -rf /', but I'm more worried about "rm -rf *" in my home directory. It happened once because I was too happy switching directories before realising what I was doing in the wrong directory. Also, refusing to do it is not the ideal way to go, I think that if you have two -f's specified it would do it anyway. Just my two cents of course. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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