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