rm -R /
Ahhh. I just did
rm -R /
It was strangely liberating.
I’ve just transferred Vocaroo from the VPS it was on to a dedicated server, the same one I run some web proxies on. So I no longer need the VPS.
But the command is hanging… surely it shouldn’t take this long. But the free disk space amount in the HyperVM VPS control panel is slowly going down. So it is doing something!
It’s on 497MB at the moment… 458… Wonder if I can still ssh into it?
Nope.
380MB.
It still responds to ping!
262MB… Still responding!
Oh! The terminal says something:
rm: cannot remove directory `//dev/shm’: Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `//dev/pts/0′: Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove directory `//var/run’: Device or resource busy
:-(
It seems to have stopped at 262MB. rm isn’t giving any more output. But it can still be pinged and the original ssh session hasn’t cut off.
Now the space used has risen to 263MB! How curious.