[CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

Mon Feb 1 20:41:33 UTC 2016
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 02/01/2016 11:54 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/
> Now, you have a bug in the script and ${DIRECTORY} is not initialized.

On GNU systems, rm should not remove '/' recursively unless 
--no-preserve-root is specified.