On 03/17 05:45, Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. März 2017, 17:24:27 CET schrieb tu...@posteo.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 > > -- > GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' > Nils Freydank
Hi Nils. Thanks for your reply! :) And especially for the warning regarding UEFI systems! 8) Will try mkfs... Cheers Meino
