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Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)Posted Apr 3, 2009 21:07 UTC (Fri) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048)In reply to: Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) by vblum Parent article: Shortening the rope
But -f doesn't just undo it
it also causes rm to remove readonly things that it would have previously stopped on
So by accepting this bit of 'protection' against one particular failure mode you've increased your exposure to another.
(The preserve root thing seems like 100% win to me
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Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) Posted Apr 6, 2009 11:18 UTC (Mon) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]
hm, yes, but I tend to actually think twice before I ever type "-f" ... because that is not routine ... anyway, just a personal thing.
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