[Techtalk] infinite subdirs!!

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 12 March 2004 10:26 pm, Kai MacTane wrote:
> At 3/12/04 09:58 PM , Carla Schroder wrote:
> >Ever see anything like this? It's the same with ls or a graphical browser, 
> >the
> >subdirs never end:
> >http://bratgrrl.com/boot.png
> 
> I accidentally created something like that once, with a script that didn't 
> perform quite the way I'd intended. Of course, there can't actually be a 
> truly infinite number of subdirectories there; each dir does take a few 
> bytes, plus an inode, and both of those are finite resources.
> 
> It can be vaguely amusing to see how long "rm -rf /boot/boot" takes to 
> complete. (Just make *sure* that the files you need in /boot are really 
> there, rather than stuck way down in /boot/boot/boot/.../boot somehow. But 
> you knew that already.)
> 
> So, how did this happen?

Beats the heck out of me, I haven't touched that directory since it was 
installed. Not even to back it up. It wasn't always that way! It's a Libranet 
system, perhaps the Libranet updater did something goofy.

I must try rm -rf /boot/boot now. :)

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