On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:31, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Russ Pitman wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:13:41PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 20:40, nate wrote: > > > > rm -rf * > > > Do me a favor. Try this on your system as root. Then walk a way and > > > come back an hour later. Youll need another system to tell us what > > > happened cause yours will be hosed. This command will generally delete > > > your entire file system. Trust me, Ive done a form of it before(mv *). > > > > > > -- > > > Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org> > > > > > > > Every sysadmin is entitled to do this or the eqivalent just ONCE. > > The one I did yesterday (and have done before which breaks the ONCE rule) > is rm -rf foo * where I meant rm -rf foo* (foo was a tarball that I > unpacked so I did have two foo* to remove. At least this time it was not > in a top-level directory. > > -- > Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org My closest was an ext2 partition of 24 GB that had been hopping in and out of "virtually full" - I'd burned off a CD of stuff and cleared up just that, shutdown, started back up with the /home partition unmounted, and defragged it while I puttered in another VC with system maintenance work on the other partitions and a few services. Guess who BADLY hung the system, resulting in about 6 GB outside of /home/lost+found, 12 GB of fragments in /home/lost+found, and 5 GB just totally gone. The defragging actually was needed - the system reported that the partition was over 50% fragmented and anything over a sector in size was noticeably involving thrashing to read. It just didn't need *THAT*. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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