Re: Everything gone!

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:23:55AM -0700, Eric Weigle wrote:
> Ok, I couldn't help but try it. I've got a 2G bochs disk image for Debian
> (really a 250M holey file) I can copy and throw away.
> 
> A `rm -rfv *` as root from / does:
> 
> (removes a bunch of files, including "rm" from bin and so forth), then loops printing:
> removing all entries of directory `dev/pts'
> removing the directory itself `dev/pts'
> removing all entries of directory `dev/pts'
> removing the directory itself `dev/pts'
> removing all entries of directory `dev/pts'
> removing the directory itself `dev/pts'
> removing all entries of directory `dev/pts'
> removing the directory itself `dev/pts'
> removing all entries of directory `dev/pts'
> removing the directory itself `dev/pts'
> 
> It's apparently having issues with removing the mount point of the devpts
> filesystem.

I think you should try it without devfs. I don't think that you can
 remove directories in devfs. :-)




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