On 3/11/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I did an rm -rf / once out of frustration and spite, ironically since computers are dumb and thoughtless. RedHat 8.0 suffered a lot at my ignorance and stupidity during the first ten (re)installs. Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
