Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

[Michael Hampicke <mh@hadt.biz>]

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> I might add, on a older rig I tried that command once.  I ran rm -rfv /*
> and it didn't erase everything like I thought it would.  I figured the
> command would be loaded in ram and would run until the end of the /
> structure.  It didn't.  I can't recall how far it got now but I think it
> was in the /proc directory.  I figure it deleted the process and sort of
> forgot to finish.  It's been a while since I did that tho.  Details are
> fuzzy. 

# rm -rfv /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

# rm -rfv --no-preserve-root /
** deletes lots of stuff**
** cannot delete in /proc **
** cannot delete in /sys **
** deletes more stuff **
** finshed with status 0 **

System broken :-) Don't worry, it was only a virtual machine.


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