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Old 6th September 2008
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Originally Posted by Business_woman View Post
Aren't the subdirectories of / sunlnk'd to prevent such drastic actions?
I think no.

Gor example you have a /usr.bkp dir or even /boot.bkp dir, you just want to replace the messed one, and you cant do that then:
# rm -rf /usr
# mv /usr /usr.bkp


You will could go to /usr adn rm -rf * there and then rename it but, whats the point generally ...

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