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minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 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-up4·2 months 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-22 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-up2·2 months agobut here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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-up2·2 months ago@buddascrayon @gramie https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7943540.html
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?
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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