Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:03:51 +0200 From: Rolf G Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: jimmiejaz@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf and fat fingers Message-ID: <4A67C507.6090701@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <4A67AC39.2060805@gmail.com> References: <4A67AC39.2060805@gmail.com>
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Jimmie James wrote:
> So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and
> here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su
>
> jimmie@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note
> the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/)
>
> Now, a lot of libs went missing from /usr/local/lib. With libchk, last
> locatedb I've been able to reinstall most of the libs.
> My ~/ *seems* unaffected, but I'm worried about that, I don't notice
> anything missing, but I could be wrong.
>
> What I'm thinking is the rm -rf found no 'cd' and moved to wipe out
> /usr/local/lib Would this be a correct assumption?
>
> And yes, I sat in the stupid corner with the dunce hat on.
>
>
Hi Jimmie,
Out of curiousity, what were you trying to do when you issued that command?
And this reminds me of an equally stupid thing I did a few years ago.
I had a directories named share on three different partitions. These
were for files that I and my then current gf shared. At one point I
wanted to clean them all out, and issued this command:
find -s / -type d -name share -exec rm -Rd {}/* \; -exec rm -Rd {}/.* \;
Fortunately I had backups. And after that I renamed those share
directories to something else.
And yes, I too sat in the stupid corner.
--
Rolf Nielsen
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