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Originally Posted by Business_woman
Aren't the subdirectories of / sunlnk'd to prevent such drastic actions?
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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 ...
"UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things."
Doug Gwyn