On 03/11/2011 04:06 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
On 3/11/2011 9:04 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:42:17AM -0500, hans wrote:rm / -rf worked fine last time I tried it on a VM as an experiment.It was fixed in coreutils 6.2 [2006-09-18].Subjective fix. It can still destroy your system, it can still delete critical files, just not certain critical files. We've done it before too.
perhaps dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/root is a better solution?