[arch-general] 2 recommendations needed for installing ArchLinux

[Cédric Girard]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> As root I wanted to run
> rm -r /media/path/to/a/partition
>

This is not safe to do anyway. If I understand you well you were trying to
remove an empty folder that was a mount point before ? Then use "rmdir"
instead of "rm -r". It will accept to remove the directory only if empty
which is the safe behavior you want in that case.

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Cédric Girard