• @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Same, I didn’t realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working…

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month ago

        Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.

        I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify rm to follow symlinks nowadays.

    • @[email protected]
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      301 month ago

      Reminds me of the time when I bind mounted my home dir in a chroot, then rm -rfed the chroot when I no longer needed it…

      • palordrolap
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        191 month ago

        Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn’t have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people’s work.

        Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.

      • redjard
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        121 month ago

        Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r … without unmounting the network share of production.
        We have backups now.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      I fairly recently tried to do a rm match* but accidentally put a space between the match and the *