[MBCook]

I did it to one of my linux boxes once, but caught it before it got everything.

It made for a very trippy and insightful experience. Commands that had already been run (like cp, ls, mv, cd, etc.) worked fine since they were in memory but other ones wouldn't run (/bin was one of the first to go).

I tried for about an hour to bootstrap the system back to normal by copying files of CD/etc but in the end the damage was too bad for my (very amateur) experience and I ended up reinstalling.

[alxndr]

Some fun exploration of a `rm -rf`'d system: http://lambdaops.com/rm-rf-remains

discussed here last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892247