Excerpt: Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially perma-brick your system.
"And they closed the ticket"? That tuxedo on the cockroach is so elegent! Ok, *now* tell me why we shouldn't hate systemd? mark
As much as I don't like systemd, it has NOTHING to do with system and everything to a poor admin or newbie blindly following others advice.
My suggestion is to ALWAYS fully qualify *ANY* directory you want to rm -rf, period.
I speak from experience. Years ago had a script that would cd into a directory and then rm - rf * it. Problem started when I accidently deleted said dir and the PREVIOUS dir was /. Needless to say, the server was happily committing suicide before I figured out the problem.
Lessons learned: 1. Fully qualify ANY rm -rf command 2. Make sure you always have good backups, I did! 3. I became really, really good at disaster recovery :) 4. Upper Management WILL get cranky over an event like this!
Just my 2 cents worth...
Richard
--- Richard Zimmerman Systems / Network Administrator River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc. 1111 S Main Street South Bend, IN 46601-3337 (574) 233-1133 (574) 280-7284 Fax