[Nottingham] *nix most dangerous command line commands...

[Martin]

On 13/06/14 17:05, RICHARD SMEDLEY wrote:
>> Many moons ago, I was on a customer site logged in
>> as root and mistyped the cd location I wanted to go
>> to, then not realising I was still in the / directory, I
>> then typed 
> 
>> rm -r *
> 
>> End of operating system......
> 
> 
> The classic tale of recovering from this comes from Manchester:
> http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/recovery.html

Fantastic!


Scarily, I know all those people...

You certainly couldn't do that with some systems! (For the damage or for
the live recovery...)


Thanks for that,

Cheers,
Martin

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