Comments on: In the interest of newbs http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/in-the-interest-of-newbs/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Scripting Fool http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/in-the-interest-of-newbs/#comment-439 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:00:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/in-the-interest-of-newbs/#comment-439 I actually had a similar experience writing a script at work. It was supposed to recreate the modules directory for our bootable cd so I had a line similar to rm -rf /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION, and of course KERNEL_VERSION wasn’t defined and most of the kernel modules were removed…

And of course `ls` didn’t after that.

]]> By: dosnlinux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/in-the-interest-of-newbs/#comment-434 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/in-the-interest-of-newbs/#comment-434 I can say from personal experience that rm -rf / WILL work on a mounted partition. I learned this the hard way when as root I mistyped `rm -rf .*/` as `rm -rf .* /`

It took me forever to find out why `ls` couldn’t be found :P

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