Kaityy to r/unixsocks on fediverse • 3 months agoBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.imagemessage-square38arrow-up1415file-text
arrow-up1415imageBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.Kaityy to r/unixsocks on fediverse • 3 months agomessage-square38file-text
minus-square@cobra89@beehaw.orglinkfedilink5•edit-23 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-squareNorah - She/TheylinkEnglish4•3 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-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.