From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unrecoverable fs corruption?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 17:24:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3682129.ZmNZ4hatg3@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$11cfd$9e78008a$67e09cd4$7017ff54@cox.net>
Am Sonntag, 3. Januar 2016, 15:53:56 CET schrieben Sie:
> [1] Fat-fingering a deletion: My own brown-bag "I became an admin that
> day" case was running a script, unfortunately as root, that I was
> debugging, where I did an rm -rf $somevar/*, with $somevar assigned
> earlier, only either the somevar in the assignment or the somevar in the
> rm line was typoed, so the var ended up empty and the command ended up as
> rm -rf /*. ...
>
> I was *SO* glad I had a backup, not just a raid1, that day!
Epic.
Thats the one case GNU rm doesn´t cover yet.
It refuses to rm -rf . or rm -rf .. and rm -rf / (unless you give special
argument, but there is not much it can do about rm -r /*, as the shell expands
this before handing it to the command.
Thanks,
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-03 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-31 23:36 Unrecoverable fs corruption? Alexander Duscheleit
2016-01-01 1:22 ` Chris Murphy
2016-01-01 8:13 ` Duncan
2016-01-02 4:32 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-01-03 15:00 ` Duncan
2016-01-04 0:05 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-01-06 7:35 ` Duncan
2016-01-02 10:53 ` Alexander Duscheleit
2016-01-02 21:19 ` Henk Slager
2016-01-03 15:53 ` Duncan
2016-01-03 16:24 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2016-01-03 16:08 ` Duncan
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