wearing thigh highs, sitting next to a Thinkpad laptop running Arch Linux

wearing thigh highs, with a closed laptop featuring several tech stickers on it

  • Norah - She/They
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    9 months ago

    Can’t tell if serious or trying to get people to type it in to prove you wrong….

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      9 months ago

      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.