Kaityy ( @kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) to unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 years agoBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1270file-text
arrow-up1270imageBeen 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 ) to unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 years agomessage-square17linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years 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 (pup/it/she) ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years 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-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.