Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Mike Meyer]

In <20041002081928.GA21439 at gothmog.gr>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> typed:
> John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday
> about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
> 
> His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
> rm(1) of FreeBSD:

Aw, but watching how systems fail when you do "rm -rf /" after you
take them out of service is so entertaining.

	<mike
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