Comments on: What Happens When You Run “rm -rf /” http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/31/what-happens-when-you-run-rm-rf/ a swift kick in the *nix Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/31/what-happens-when-you-run-rm-rf/comment-page-2/#comment-5261 Steve Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:23:05 +0000 http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/31/what-happens-when-you-run-rm-rf/#comment-5261 Hi, I just experienced this. I copied the command from a blog (can't remember where.) Anyways, not only did it delete almost everything, it also traversed down the network, into my file server and also deleted a huge amount of file before I noticed it and stopped it. What happened was it also deleted the .gvfs folder. Since the .gvfs folder also has pointers to any network folder that you've accessed, it also traversed those files. Problem is I generally access my network files using admin rights, so it just went to my .gvfs folder, to my network shares (with admin rights) and just started deleted everything. Luckily I have backups on a seperate pc. It was really scary. Taught me a good lesson.. Hi,
I just experienced this. I copied the command from a blog (can’t remember where.)
Anyways, not only did it delete almost everything, it also traversed down the network, into my file server and also deleted a huge amount of file before I noticed it and stopped it.

What happened was it also deleted the .gvfs folder. Since the .gvfs folder also has pointers to any network folder that you’ve accessed, it also traversed those files. Problem is I generally access my network files using admin rights, so it just went to my .gvfs folder, to my network shares (with admin rights) and just started deleted everything. Luckily I have backups on a seperate pc.

It was really scary. Taught me a good lesson..

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