Re: rm -R /usr/

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

js8319@csc.albany.edu wrote:
>i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson.  I guess it is
>a bad idea to issue the following command:
>
>rm -R /usr/
>
>i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that,
>so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake. 
>Hopefully i will make different, and yet equally idiotic mistakes in the
>future.

Hmm. Bad luck there. At least it wasn't /, so you get to keep /home. The
mind boggles as to how much I'd lose if I zapped that and didn't have
backups ...

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]