removing all files with extreme prejudice

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:25 +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Simon Burr wrote:
> > Still, there are some interesting war stories out there of how to recover
> > from an accidently rm -rf / as root; the best probably being:
> >   http://www.justpasha.org/folk/rm.html
> 
> Back in the day we had an old ICL DRS6000 which needed a fresh OS install.
> So just for laughs, a bunch of us sat down and watched what really happens
> when you do run rm -rf / as root.
> 

Earlier versions of DRS/NX would kernel panic if you so much as looked
at them funny so accepting the 25Mhz processor would have slowed it down
a bit - this probably wouldn't have lasted long :-)

/J\