As everyone knows, these are two deadly unix commands that both tell a machine to commit suicide. But what is the difference between the two? The first one deletes the root directory, while the second one deletes everything in it. Both are equally bad, but will the first one delete the filesystem because it deletes the root directory itself? What is the difference?
I wonder if there is a way to integrate (it’s a bit different from mounting, I think) compressed files as directories into the file system?
Is it enough to see getfacl giving no error, or do I have to check some other place to see whether or not ACLs are supported by the file systems?
There’s an application on my system which keeps creating an empty ~/Desktop directory again and again. I can’t stand capital letters in my home, nor I can stand this “desktop” thingy. So, as picky as I am, I remove the directory each time I see it. I’d really like to know which application is responsible for that (probably some application I won’t use so often¹).