worst Linux moment

[Noah John Gellner]

When I first started using Linux I had no background in Unix. I used to
mount my windows 3.x partition to allow easy sharing of files. For some
reason or other I decided to 'uninstall' Slackware and so su'ed, cd'ed
to / and executed rm -rf *. My linux partition was only around 60 megs
so I couldn't figure out why the command was taking so long to execute.
I soon gained a deeper conceptual understanding of mounted filesystems.

The unnuanced suggestion on the deleting CVS ... thread made me recall
this sorry tale.

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