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

[Gordon Messmer]

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.