i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 18:41, Patrick Campbell wrote:
>
> I put my backups in /backups even though it might not be conventional, when
> you hit rm -rf / and have 18 gigs of backups, you get a few seconds to
> realize what you've done, hit cntrl-c and move on...

Backups should always be mounted read-only. What's the point of having backups 
if you can mess with it ? 

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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