worst Linux moment

[James Knott]

Noah John Gellner wrote:
> 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.
> 


Oh well...  It was only a Windows system.  No loss.  ;-)

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