Re: In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

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On 02/01/2016 01:48 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I just discovered that I couldn't even re-cite alphabet correctly today:
it is /bin that you loose, but /etc alphabetically goes after /dev, so
will not even loose your /etc,

I'm pretty sure none of that is correct. Once "rm" launches, all of the libraries and files that it needs are memory mapped and reference counted, so they're going to remain available while it removes the entire filesystem structure.

Spin up a VM and try it out.
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