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minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·20 hours 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-up4·18 hours 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-214 hours agorm -rf --no-preserve-root / Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agobut here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 hours 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-up2·18 hours 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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