23 Nov
2001
23 Nov
'01
3:32 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
At 06:09 PM 11/23/01 -0500, Philip wrote:
That is a neat trick. Now when you mount your root disk and it moves root
to there does this show a normal number of files in the various /bin /sbin
/etc directories?
I am wondering if perhaps someone tried another neat trick of an rm -rf *
on your disk which stopped after rm was deleted or number of files rm
could handle was exceeded due to environment limitations.
--
A classic tip is to do `echo *` to get a directory
listing if ls is broken
or missing. Note that this assumes your shell does globing, which a
reduced "emergency" shell might not.
It worked, why, of course! why didn't I think about it?