I came home drunk once and couldn't get my laptop to play MP3s so did the 'rm -fr /' special. I'm not sure, but i think everything was gone. I do remember that it didn't boot and I lost some important docs for work ;) <tip of the day> WARNING TO ALL LIST READERS: do not get angry with your box after a few beers, it'll only end in tears </tip of the day> ...and no, I wont try it again! hehehehe. Jeff On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:09, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > Just out of curiosity, and since people I know have argued this. If you ran > rm -rf /, will it keep running until 100% of the system is gone leaving only > what's in physical memory and RAM, or will it eventually choke and fail, > leaving some files? We hosed a virtual server environment (gomer) on a test > box once, and it left just the /dev folder, but what will remain if done on > non-virtual environments? I'd argued nothing would be left. > _____________________ > Regards, Joe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
