[CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
Gordon Messmer
gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 22:23:45 UTC 2016
On 02/01/2016 01:48 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> I just discovered that I couldn't even re-cite alphabet correctly today:
> it is /bin that you loose, but /etc alphabetically goes after /dev, so
> will not even loose your /etc,
I'm pretty sure none of that is correct. Once "rm" launches, all of the
libraries and files that it needs are memory mapped and reference
counted, so they're going to remain available while it removes the
entire filesystem structure.
Spin up a VM and try it out.
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