Re: rm -R /usr/

[Aaron Solochek <aarons@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Yep... I was working with a filesystem I had mounted in /slink, and I
issued rm -r /etc, trying to remove the mounted etc... oops...  

Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but
I haven't made a mistake like that again.

-Aaron

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:

> hello
> 
> 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.
> 
> thanks for listening, i just needed to vent.
> 
> -jake
> 
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