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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  rm -rf /* will work just fine.

  You need the additional flag for rm -rf --no-preserve-root /.

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is that for?

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Too many people got trolled into “removing the French language pack” on Linux systems that there’s now a check to see if someone is deleting every file off their computer (including the os system files). --no-preserve-root is the option you need to include to actually delete all the files off your system.

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      weird how it doesn’t warn you for rm -rf /* though

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      • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        depending on your shell, i believe the glob is expanded before it gets to the rm program

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Contrary to the memes, Linux does actually sometimes try to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, do as I say!

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Every time I get one of these even if I 100% feel like I know what I’m doing it strikes a deep fear in me

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      • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

         sudo make me a sandwich 
        

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  • CCF_100@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Overrides the protection in place that prevents you from deleting the root of your filesystem.

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