Re: [gentoo-user] Wiping the old root without killing the new root

On 03/17 05:45, Nils Freydank wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. März 2017, 17:24:27 CET schrieb tuxic@××××××.de:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Finally I moved to my new root and it seems to be $HOME
> > enough to wiupe the old root.
>
> > The old root is on a separate partition to which I will move
> > the contents of the new root after wiping the new root.
> => I would just unmount the partition and wipe it on FS level (i.e. running
> mkfs with some kind of --force parameter). Another way would running find to
> find and remove symlinks, but putting that one together and removing files
> after could consume more time than mkfs ;)
>
> > May be the following question is born from to much worry, but...
> >
> > First I thought: Mount the old root to a certain mountpoint
> > somewhere, cd into it (as root) and do a rm -rf....
> BTW, avoid "rm -rf /" (yes, I know, there are DAU checks now) on UEFI systems,
> because they tend to mount essential stuff rw and don???t like deletion of
> stuff.
>
> > [...]
>
> Greetings,
> Nils
>
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> Nils Freydank



Hi Nils.

Thanks for your reply! :) 

And especially for the warning regarding UEFI systems! 8)

Will try mkfs...

Cheers
Meino