atom feed82 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersProtection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
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Giorgos KeramidasOct 2, 2004 1:19 am 
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Subject:Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
From:Tillman Hodgson (till@seekingfire.com)
Date:Oct 2, 2004 2:05:36 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:16:08PM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote:

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: ...

Exactly. Who would expect `rm -rf /` to actually succeed? It's not only dangerous, it doesn't work in a useful way ;-)

If one is thinking about `rm -rf /`, `newfs` is probably the right answer.

newfs only works if the root is not mounted because otherwise the device is locked. (Hmm is GEOM too anti foot shooting? But can't you reenable foot-shooting via sysctl?) whereas `rm -rf /` works allwsys :-)

It'll never work, though, that's the thing. At some point it'll rm something it itself needs and error out. There isn't a way to use `rm -rf /` that /doesn't/ result in foot-shooting.

This isn't a sub-tree like /etc or /sbin (which are rooted in /), this is only to treat / itself specially.

-T

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