On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Alex Snow wrote: > yeah you gotta watch out how you do that. > another thing to watch out when using is the rm -r command. you can > really screw up a filesystem like that... Please elaborate. Other than unlinking large numbers of files, as well as their containing directories: what damage do you see in its use? I mean, obviously "rm -rf /", is one of the more stupid moves one can make, but what damage is done to the actual file system? Luke