2008/1/22, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Colin Pitrat schrieb: > > Here is a proof that I was right to believe. On Ubuntu: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fzInlyYQo > > > > Regards, > > Colin Pitrat > > It's a recent change in coreutils 6. 'Cannot remove root directory /'. I'm surprised that no-one seems to have checked the manpage for rm: http://linux.die.net/man/1/rm --no-preserve-root do not treat '/' specially (the default) --preserve-root fail to operate recursively on '/' Although i must admit that i didn't check arch's manpage yet. mvg, Guus
