shutting down

[Luke Davis]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Alex Snow wrote:

> yeah you gotta watch out how you do that.
> another thing to watch out when using is the rm -r command. you can
> really screw up a filesystem like that...

Please elaborate.  Other than unlinking large numbers of files, as well as
their containing directories: what damage do you see in its use?

I mean, obviously "rm -rf /", is one of the more stupid moves one can
make, but what damage is done to the actual file system?

Luke