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Old 10-04-2003, 03:10 PM   #16 (permalink)
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When you do rm -rf / it can not delete every file, many files are in use, many libs are in use, etc. I believe you can probably delete vmlinuz or whatever kernel you're running, but it will not delete everything, I know somebody who was going to format his box, so he just did a rm -rf / on his OpenBSD box, and he could still reboot and boot up. (Seems weird though.. Wouldn't getty be gone?)
That would be me


Plus, rm -rf / would delete the command rm...
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Old 10-04-2003, 03:34 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Yeah, if ya ran OpenBSD


And like I said... rm -rf / would NOT delete binaries that were in use... rm being one.
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