Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Sat Oct 2 11:09:24 PDT 2004


On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:55:17PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-10-02 10:51, Tillman Hodgson <tillman at seekingfire.com> wrote:
> > If one is thinking about `rm -rf /`, `newfs` is probably the right
> > answer.
> 
> And a hell of a lot faster too.

Exactly.

> This is the *only* reason why I initially wrote this.

I'd love to see it incorporated.

-T


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