On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 07/27 10:48 , Mike Miller wrote: > >> http://cheezcomixed.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/koma-comic-strip-defeating-the-computer-overlord.jpg > > Except that fsck only checks the consistency of the filesystem. > mkfs.ext4 (or whatever your preferred FS is) actually 'formats' the disk > in the Windows sense. Apparently, there is no -f option to fsck. Good call. This is one of my favorite commands to teach to beginners: rm -rf / That's mean but it won't work unless they have root permissions. Mike
