Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:59:46 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/X11R6 sym link Message-ID: <20141030065945.GA1778@unixarea.DDR.dd>
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Hello, I wanted to update one of my laptops with my usual procedure: - boot from a well prepared USB key with 11-CURRENT, packages, src, ... - wipe out with newfs(8) all file systems, but not /usr - mount the (old) /usr as /mnt/usr - rm -rf everything in /mnt/usr, but not /mnt/usr/home - install 'make installworld ...' into /mnt - ... A pity that I overlooked that the old /usr/X11R6 was a sym link to (fully qualified) /usr/local: $ ls -l /mnt/usr total 58 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 7 abr 2011 X11R6 -> /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 7680 1 ago 2012 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 12 abr 2011 compat drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 18 abr 2011 games ... This (rm -rf /mnt/usr/X11R6) damaged the system I was sitting on, i.e. the USB key :-( Ofc, I have had an image of the key and could recreate the key in a few minutes. And of course, I could have seen this and ofc I will keep my eyes wider open next time, but I'm curious: what piece of old package could have created such a symlink in this older (9-CURRENT) system? Any idea? matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
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