>> 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