Ed Wilts <> wrote: > One thing that still confuses me is how you only deleted /usr/bin when > the command you gave us would have deleted a lot more than that. > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program Maybe he hit cntrl-c. rm -rf /*r would go in order, on our RedHat machines the first dir that fits that match is /usr/bin. I put my backups in /backups even though it might not be conventional, when you hit rm -rf / and have 18 gigs of backups, you get a few seconds to realize what you've done, hit cntrl-c and move on... -- Patrick Campbell OurVacationStore.com Website Administrator Tel. 602.896.4729 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list