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Started by Sik_the_hedgehog February 09, 2016 06:49 PM

15 comments, last by dsm1891 8 years, 2 months ago

Sik_the_hedgehog

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February 09, 2016 06:49 PM

Don't erase your whole filesystem. Especially not when the back-up drive is mounted.

Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.

Oberon_Command

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February 09, 2016 07:43 PM

Well, yes, you're only supposed to delete System32.

ApochPiQ

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February 09, 2016 07:59 PM

Pff.

You're supposed to crawl the LAN for open file shares and delete everything on there, too.

Noob.

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FRex

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February 09, 2016 09:57 PM

If you deleted the filesystem without bricking the machine then you're just a newbie: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402

xycsoscyx

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February 09, 2016 10:29 PM

Fortunately we had good QA at a previous job, but once I was using SHDeleteFile and apparently instead of deleting a specific directory, I was deleting EVERY directory!

DELETE ALL THE DIRECTORIES!!!!

QA noticed it during install once Windows started throwing up errors. Apparently not all critical files are locked at all times, but when it needs them and they aren't there then it's not a good thing. XD

frob

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February 10, 2016 01:58 AM

Apparently not all critical files are locked at all times, but when it needs them and they aren't there then it's not a good thing.

Reminds me of a fun bug on a game uninstaller.

It went something like this:

Get into the game. In the middle of play, pause the game, alt-tab out of the game. Run the uninstall program. On the prompts hit "yes", "yes", "Ignore warning", "Remove Anyway". Hit "Ignore" on the warnings that appear. Alt-tab back into the game. Resume from pause. When you leave the scene or do anything triggering a disk load, the game crashes.

We decided to KS the bug. (KS = Known Shippable, we aren't going to fix it.)

Sik_the_hedgehog

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February 10, 2016 05:19 AM

Pff.

You're supposed to crawl the LAN for open file shares and delete everything on there, too.

Noob.

The only reason that didn't happen is because I don't have a LAN here. The rogue script started scaling up directories until it became basically rm -rf /* (ouch)

I'm never again going to automate cleanup, I swear -_-;

Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.

Brain

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February 10, 2016 06:39 AM

I'm never again going to automate cleanup, I swear ;

Nah, it's OK if you just have a manifest of file names, no wildcards or recursive deletes...

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Bacterius

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February 10, 2016 06:58 AM

Fortunately we had good QA at a previous job, but once I was using SHDeleteFile and apparently instead of deleting a specific directory, I was deleting EVERY directory!

DELETE ALL THE DIRECTORIES!!!!

QA noticed it during install once Windows started throwing up errors. Apparently not all critical files are locked at all times, but when it needs them and they aren't there then it's not a good thing. XD

Good thing QA "noticed" it