Alex Esplin wrote: > On 3/11/06, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Steve wrote: >> >>> Best solution I could come up with.... >>> sudo rm -rf / >>> >>> BTW that was just a joke please don't ever do that >>> >> Hey I just tried that on my system and now when I type anything I get >> "Command not found"... >> >> ;) > > That must be a pretty sturdy computer to still say anything after that... :p
Actually, that's what happens--I have experience. After the fatal command, the kernel, bash, even the GUI all remained in RAM, and through the magic of inodes, all of the loaded dynamic libraries remained on disk. But nothing on disk linked to them, so the kernel lay waiting for me to kill the running processes, at which time it would shred the last bits of the filesystem. Yet the kernel's desire for carnage could never be satisfied, because among the commands deleted were 'kill', 'umount', and 'fsck'! I was also powerless to recover the files. The battle ended with a brand new distribution and a scarred but slightly less foolish user. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
