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Hi folks, I thought you guys might find this amusing. It is a warning that even running commands with sudo can be dangerous! I was trying to delete some files from my USB pen drive this morning. For some funny reason I couldn't delete a couple of files out of the Trash can (I'm running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Beta). I figured, okay I haven't got time to mess around so I opened up a terminal, changed to the USB key directory and ran... rm -fr .Trash-Rob Great I thought, that's the trash emptied (it was complaining about a permissions problem which I considered strange on a FAT formatted device!). I then wanted to do something else in the terminal window, I think it was checking the MD5SUMs of Ubuntu Edgy that I had downloaded. I entered cd / and pressed enter. Unfortunately I think, I'd hit the up arrow key a second before so I actually entered the command... rm -fr .Trash-Rob cd / Good old Ubuntu remembered my password on the sudo command as I'd previously entered it a few seconds before. Before I knew it I was rm'ing everything from / downwards! Luckily I caught it in time (Ctrl-C didn't respond) so I closed the terminal window. I think it only deleted /bin /sbin /boot and /etc as my data appears to be intact. Not ideal as I'll have to reinstall but still its not the end of the world I guess. Just as well I downloaded the Edgy ISO's now :-) So I guess the moral of the story is even when running sudo, think before pressing Enter (or at least when using the rm command don't do rm -fr!). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html