Kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to r/unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 months agoBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1414file-text
arrow-up1414imageBeen wishing this community was more active, decided to be the change. Anyways I felt cute, running Arch KDE on a Thinkpad.lemmy.blahaj.zoneKaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to r/unixsocks on fediverse @lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 months agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJCreazy@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI don’t even think that command works anymore.
minus-squareNorah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoCan’t tell if serious or trying to get people to type it in to prove you wrong….
minus-squarecobra89@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·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/They@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThe fact that the second one still works is a bit terrifying.
minus-squaregaael@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIirc you need a --no-preserve-root or somenthing for it to work.
I don’t even think that command works anymore.
Can’t tell if serious or trying to get people to type it in to prove you wrong….
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.
Iirc you need a --no-preserve-root or somenthing for it to work.