Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn't have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people's work.

Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.

I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify rm to follow symlinks nowadays.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

I fairly recently tried to do a rm match* but accidentally put a space between the match and the *…