[ale] Stupid Question Time

[Lightner, Jeff]

Maybe it was "stupid answer" for "stupid question"?

It reminds of the folks that tell you to hit "Atl-F4" when you tell them you're having a problem going to a particular web site.

Hopefully he meant "sudo rm -rf /<directory> and not just "/"!

There are two kinds of Admins:
The kind that have done "rm -rf /" without meaning it.
The kind that lie and say they have never done it.






-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:54 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Stupid Question Time

gcs8 wrote:
> Sudo rm -rf /
>
> That will fix it but it is the nuke it from orbit fix.

What?  You're talking about destroying the whole system.  That would
attempt to remove everything under / .  You sure you don't want to
rethink that post?

>
> On Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Do a 'ls /media/sdc1' and see if anything is there. If not. no need
>     to rmdir. If you plug back in the same drive(s) they will get
>     mounted at the same location.
>
>     On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Nolan
>     <michaeldnolan at gmail.com <mailto:michaeldnolan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         (Sorry about the sleep deprived post last night, misspelled
>         words are
>         always a dead giveaway the next morning...)
>
>         And thanks once again for responses, I know this stuff is simpleton
>         level for most of you....
>
>         I was reading in another thread about "root" (which was _way_
>         over my
>         head).... but I'd like to get a critique about the correctness
>         of the
>         ugly commands below and my thought process in getting rid of the
>         offending empty dir's.
>
>         Also, is there any way to search the Ale.org archives other than
>         using
>         Google advanced search or "[target] site:ale.org <http://ale.org>"
>
>         mike at Pappy:/media$ rmdir sdc1
>         rmdir: failed to remove `sdc1': Permission denied
>
>         mike at Pappy:/media$ ls -l
>         total 16
>         drwxr-xr-x 16 mike mike 4096 2012-02-02 10:15 2T_ext3
>         drwxrwxr-x  3 mike mike    0 2012-01-27 08:36 pogoplug
>         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:02 sdc1
>         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:03 sdc3
>         mike at Pappy:/media$
>
>         Obviously root owns the two dir's
>
>         so:
>
>         mike at Pappy:/media$ chown mike /media/sdc1
>         chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdc1': Operation not permitted
>
>         so:
>
>         mike at Pappy:/media$  sudo su
>
>         root at Pappy:/media#
>
>         root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc1
>         root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc3
>         root at Pappy:/media# exit
>         exit
>         mike at Pappy:/media$ ls
>         2T_ext3  pogoplug
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