On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:09:26 -0500 "Joe Szilagyi" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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? Just a minute.... login: root Password: Last login: Sun Nov 9 15:00:36 on tty1 root@trustix ~# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove directory '//dev/pts': Device or resource busy rm: cannot remove '//proc/scsi/BusLogic/0': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/scsi/scsi': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/mdstat': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/pci': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/ide/piix': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/ide/drivers': Operation not permitted rm: '//proc/ide/hda' changed dev/ino: Operation not permitted root@trustix ~# # I did an 'ls /' and all my directories where still there (bin, sbin,dev, etc) # Not content, I then did: root@trustix ~# rm -rf /* rm: cannot remove directory '//dev/pts': Device or resource busy rm: cannot remove '//proc/scsi/BusLogic/0': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/scsi/scsi': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/mdstat': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/pci': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/ide/piix': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove '//proc/ide/drivers': Operation not permitted rm: '//proc/ide/hda' changed dev/ino: Operation not permitted root@trustix ~# ls /bin -bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory Yep, it's dead now :-) BTW, I did this in VMware and copied the error messages by hand, so they may not be completely correct. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
