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- From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
- Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.133855.14134@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <1992Jul23.184344.15206@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <CKD.92Jul23233441@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul29.001208.1190@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Aug14.165259.13061@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:38:55 GMT
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- chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston) writes:
-
- > Some people suggest "rm -rf /tmp/". Is it ok to remove
- >"/tmp/lost+found/" ?
-
- NO!!!! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!
-
- The lost and found directory has empty inodes assigned to it so that in
- the fsck there is guaranteed to be a place to hang a lost file. Removing
- the lost+found directory is a bad thing and whoever recommended "rm -rf"
- should have though of that or else shouldn't have been giving advice to
- the inexperienced.
-
- Please take heed of this caution. "rm -rf" is possibly the most dangerous
- command in UN*X. After 5 years of administrating UN*X systems I _still_
- stop every time I type that command and make _damn_ sure I've though
- about what I'm doing.
-
- If you delete the lost+found directory there are ways to get it back, but
- arbitrarily removing it is not a very good idea.
-
-
- --
- Eric "Ra" Brunson |
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