Been wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimage Kaityy ( @kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) r/unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone • 8 months ago message-square18fedilinkarrow-up1257
arrow-up1257imageBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.lemmy.blahaj.zone Kaityy ( @kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) r/unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone • 8 months ago message-square18fedilink
minus-square JCreazy ( @JCreazy@midwest.social ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 months agoI don’t even think that command works anymore.
minus-square Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoCan’t tell if serious or trying to get people to type it in to prove you wrong….
minus-square cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink5•edit-28 months agoThey’re right. The modern versions of rm have a safe guard and you need to type --no-preserve-root to force it to delete /. You can also just do sudo rm -rf /* and let shell expansion do the rest. WARNING: DO NOT RUN THESE COMMANDS. THEY WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON YOUR ROOT PARTITION.
minus-square Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoThe fact that the second one still works is a bit terrifying.
I don’t even think that command works anymore.
Can’t tell if serious or trying to get people to type it in to prove you wrong….
They’re right. The modern versions of rm have a safe guard and you need to type
--no-preserve-rootto force it to delete /.You can also just do
sudo rm -rf /*and let shell expansion do the rest.WARNING: DO NOT RUN THESE COMMANDS. THEY WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON YOUR ROOT PARTITION.The fact that the second one still works is a bit terrifying.