_These_ days on the Mac, the root filesystem is mounted ro with some cute overmounting tricks such that everything mutable in normal operations lives in /System/Volumes/Data. I presume updates take the form of booting into single-user-mode and running a script to remount rw and copy, but I haven't actually looked into it. Adam On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:45 AM Will Senn wrote: > On 10/23/19 10:08 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote: > > More than one of us have done that in our lifetime ;) > > > > On 10/23/2019 1:13 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote: > >> "sudo rm -rf /tmp /*" > > > Oh yeah. Did something similar on my Powerbook back around Panther: > > sudo rm -fr /bin > > I heart my Macs (all of 'em), it was just a matter of copying back the > bin directory or reinstalling over the existing files or grabbing the > timemachine copy or somesuch... whatever it was, it was 20 minutes of > frustration, then all good. Try that on linux... no, don't :), unless > you're doing timeshift or something similar and just wanna have some fun. > > Will > > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF > >