Re: [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf /

This is gonna seem like I'm tooting my own horn, and I am a little, but here's an rm -rf / story. Clem will be amused because I was a junior or senior in college and a sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk with 20 users. And I did some version of rm -rf /, realized part way through that I screwed up, and killed it. But /bin and /dev were gone so putting things back together was hard. But I did it and wrote up this little note for the people who came after me, if I was stupid enough to do this someone else would, was my thinking. You can get a sense of how scared I was in it if you read it carefully. It was a very long night. For an undergrad, I think it's not bad? Maybe? I dunno, I look at how much I needed to have understood to get the system back up, that's a lot of reading, playing, experience. Love that Geophysics department, they pushed me. And it was during my (brief) foray into the *roff -me macros (I went -ms and never looked back). Roff source on request to anyone who is twisted enough to want it. http://mcvoy.com/lm/masscomp-restore.pdf Complete with all the typos. --lm