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minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month ago Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system. Are you sure?
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agorm -rf --no-preserve-root / Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agobut here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYou are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.
minus-squaremittorn@masturbated.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month ago@buddascrayon @gramie https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7943540.html
Are you sure?
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
but here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
You are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.
@buddascrayon @gramie
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7943540.html
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