Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:01:37 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Everything gone! |
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mer 19/03/2003 à 17:04, Matthias Schniedermeyer a écrit : > > > rm -rf * > > Should do the same(*) but with much better speed. > > > > Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it. > > > > > > > > > > *: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or > > "/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted. > > That would be surprising. Did you actually try it ? :) > > Xav
I think that, with a single instance of `rm`, not as written above, this would complete because all the open runtime libraries would remain mem-mapped until the last close. So, I think you could remove everything with -rf except the programs that will return 'text file busy' errors because they are open for execution.
An, no. I am not going to try it! Well maybe sometime when I mount an alternate root that I am going to replace.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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