From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson)
Subject: [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf /
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:44:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b843e740c1abdf812d94b91a205167df15304a19@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f579b040-b66f-49ab-e8c9-c42791f6cabd@dunnington.plus.com>
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The worst "nuke the file system" experience I had was on the GE
mainframe. Think big room, punched cards, etc. And an operators'
console that typed on paper...
When you booted the system, the first message that came up said:
INIT?
If you said 'y', it wiped out the file system.
After a very heated users' group meeting, they agreed to change the
message to
DO YOU WANT TO WIPE OUT THE FILE SYSTEM?
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 22:06 [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Noel Chiappa
2017-04-24 22:18 ` Josh Good
2017-04-24 23:23 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-24 23:59 ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / Larry McVoy
2017-04-25 0:44 ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 14:02 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 14:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-25 14:12 ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 14:29 ` arnold
2017-04-25 14:31 ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 16:28 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-04-27 23:44 ` Steve Johnson [this message]
2017-04-27 23:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-28 3:04 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-28 5:19 ` arnold
[not found] ` <mailman.198.1493337336.3780.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-28 14:48 ` John Floren
2017-04-25 14:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 15:28 ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 17:56 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-25 14:19 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-04-25 0:06 ` [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Ron Natalie
2017-04-25 0:18 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25 0:22 ` ron minnich
2017-04-25 0:24 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25 0:26 ` ron minnich
[not found] <mailman.805.1493129956.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-25 15:17 ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / David
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