Re: deleting directory

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

> It seems to me that I've seem this recently (I don't know who to credit),
> but is it not written that there are two types of *nix users?
>
> Type 1: Those who have executed rm -rf /
> Type 2: Those who haven't yet
>
> :)
>
> Brooks

You know I used to think all those warnings about rm -rf while root were 
nonsense meant to scare small children, until I didn't realize what directory 
I was in and lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's one day...

("hmm, why is the rm command taking so long... OH NO!")

-jason pepas