I actually did an "cd /; rm -rf *" on a Solaris box a few years ago. Once it finished, I booted from cd and mounted it. A lot of my data was still there. It seems that the system crashed (and rm stopped) as soon as ld.so was deleted.

Not a recommended form of data removal, but quite interesting.

-Steve

Ryan Simpkins wrote:
On 3/22/07, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You should be using FC6. But do us all a favor, don't come back
complaining when you have to install hundreds of updates after the
install. Fedora works that way by design.

For the record, I upgraded FC5 (most up to date) to FC6. Upgrading took about an
hour and twenty minutes. After the upgrade: yum update. Now I'm installing 989
packages! Thank you Fedora!

I'm not complaining see... I'm happy about it. See my joy and enthusiasm leap 
off
the page?! Where is the nearest CD burner?? Where oh where? I've got a couple 
isos
on the way down. dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/sda, rm -Rf /, 
destroy,
destroy!

-Ryan

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