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Re: Place the Blame on Me

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:07:00 -0800

Tony P. wrote:

> Mmmm ... someone didn't turn journaling on and then did an rm -r huh?

Tony, that assumes they are using a version of Unix/Linux/*BSD that
has a journaling filesystem available, and that the filesystem was
actually formatted as a journaling filesystem (like ext3).

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Regards the Unix 'rm' command, I have
> 'rm' aliased to 'rm -i', but then if there are a dozen files in some
> obsolete directory I wish to erase in bulk with 'rm -f' I get in
> trouble. I have been told before it is not a good idea to use an
> established Unix command as part of an alias to something else. Friday
> was a nightmare for me, and it wasn't even the 13th of the month. PAT]

Pat:

Seeing as how rm -f is so powerful -- especially the way I use it, rm
-rf (recursive/delete subdirectories too, force deletion) -- I try to
remember to pause and examine the command line to make sure I'm
deleting the right directory(ies).

In my case, since I run my own Linux server and babysit a couple
others, and am logged in as the 'superuser', I can very easily delete
everything on the drive with one command, so I try to be extra careful
even when not logged in as superuser. :)

Hope this helps.

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