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Back in January I got a new laptop, installed Arch on it, got it all nicely set up. And I decided it was high time to start playing with LXC because container virtualization seems extremely promising to me. Created an Ubuntu container, seemed to work fine, and then used lxc-destroy, which took some time.

It destroyed my entire file system. I have no clue how the hell it happened--it floors me that something like that would be possible--and I suspect it's probably simply the result of a newbie like myself somehow misusing userspace tools. But it was enough to turn me off of it for the time being.



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