Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:32:39 +0100 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: Everything gone! |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:23:55AM -0700, Eric Weigle wrote: > Ok, I couldn't help but try it. I've got a 2G bochs disk image for Debian > (really a 250M holey file) I can copy and throw away. > > A `rm -rfv *` as root from / does: > > (removes a bunch of files, including "rm" from bin and so forth), then loops printing: > removing all entries of directory `dev/pts' > removing the directory itself `dev/pts' > removing all entries of directory `dev/pts' > removing the directory itself `dev/pts' > removing all entries of directory `dev/pts' > removing the directory itself `dev/pts' > removing all entries of directory `dev/pts' > removing the directory itself `dev/pts' > removing all entries of directory `dev/pts' > removing the directory itself `dev/pts' > > It's apparently having issues with removing the mount point of the devpts > filesystem.
I think you should try it without devfs. I don't think that you can remove directories in devfs. :-)
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