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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.
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.