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minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIf it were on an old installation of linux, it would delete everything on the file system, from every disk attached. Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.
minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system. Are you sure?
minus-squaremittorn@masturbated.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@buddascrayon @gramie https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7943540.html
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agorm -rf --no-preserve-root / Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agobut here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
If it were on an old installation of linux, it would delete everything on the file system, from every disk attached.
Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.
Are you sure?
@buddascrayon @gramie
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7943540.html
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.