rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe Brilliant, at long last at least a bit of protection! :) Sadly, I can still remember doing this to my one

rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe Brilliant, at long last at least a bit of protection! :) Sadly, I can still remember doing this to my one of my first Linux installs, albeit via the classic: rm -fr .* On the plus side, that day I learned one hell of a lot about how Linux works ;)