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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won't go too far. But at some point the system wants to load a file that is deleted and the kernel will panic. System crash. Delete incomplete. But rest assured, the important stuff is gone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far

Go on then ... try it.

Or don't because you will erase your system. (Hint: it's in the asterisk)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don't care enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The flag is called --no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn't do anything here because you're not deleting root (/), you're deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure it's --no-preserve-root or something similar.