been there and done rm -rf as root
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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because I wanted to delete something? It was probably 23 odd years ago
I think in these days, rm will warn you if you do a
rm -rf /
Ah. Just curious if you were actively trying to nuke a distribution or were following instructions from a troll online or something.
It was one of those moments where you just mistype something when trying to clear out a whole dir
tar czf /dev/sda /home
I'd imagine rm has easily caused the most destruction.
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
Wipes the entire disk and replaced it with random data.
If you have to ask, you're not ready to know.
Destructive for me or for others?
for the terminal's operating system
./fire_nukes.sh
As a WSL user:
sudo rm -rf /mnt/c/