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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday February 09 2016, @02:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the why-oh-why dept.

A number of users have reported that running "rm --no-preserve-root -rf /" not only deletes all their files (as expected), but also permanently bricks their computers (which is not). Tracing the issue revealed that the ultimate cause was that SystemD mounted the EFI pseudo-fs as read-write even when this FS was not listed in fstab, and deleting certain files in this pseudo-fs causes certain buggy, but very common, firmware not to POST anymore. A user reported this bug on SystemD's GitHub issue tracker, asking that the FS be mounted read-only instead of read-write, and said bug was immediately closed as invalid. The comment thread for the bug was locked shortly after. Discuss.

Links:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/01/running-a-single-delete-command-can-permanently-brick-laptops-from-inside-linux/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @12:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @12:58PM (#301386)

    This is an increasingly common grammatical error that I've been hearing in the past few years, and from native English speakers in the US.

    The compound verb tense "have/had (main verb)" is being misconjugated. They use the simple past tense of the main verb after "have/had" instead of the proper tense.

    Examples:

    Incorrect: I had ate enough.
    Correct: I had eaten enough.

    Incorrect: I have ran 5 miles on a treadmill.
    Correct: I have run 5 miles on a treadmill.

    I agree, it's basic English, and it does make the person sound stupid-- except to all his friends who speak the same way!