| 1 |
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 |
> |
| 3 |
> But in some scenarios this command is normal. E.g. user installs |
| 4 |
> Gentoo from some live dvd/flash, makes some mistakes, understands |
| 5 |
> that system is broken beyond repair and decides to start over again. |
| 6 |
> If there is no need to recreate filesystem itself or partition |
| 7 |
> layout, running rm -rf / as above is quite reasonable. |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
Honestly, this is one of those reasons that I think the handbook |
| 11 |
should be tweaked to use a container instead of a chroot. That fixes |
| 12 |
a lot of special filesystem issues and general makes things cleaner. |
| 13 |
With systemd it is pretty trivial due to nspawn, but I'm not sure how |
| 14 |
hard it would be to make this change on an openrc-based install CD |
| 15 |
(presumably you'd need to include lxc tools on it, though a bit of |
| 16 |
scripting with unshare is probably sufficient). |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
-- |
| 19 |
Rich |
Archives