On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:42:18PM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / > > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > > vm-linux2:/# > > That's rather annoying. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, it > should let me. It's a bug that it doesn't :-) Perhaps rm -rf /* would do more or less what you want :)