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 • 6 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 • 6 months ago message-square18fedilink
minus-square cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink5•edit-26 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•6 months agoThe fact that the second one still works is a bit terrifying.
They’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.
The fact that the second one still works is a bit terrifying.