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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Something something rm -fr / to remove the french language pack

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    and rm -rf removes only the République française language pack

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    other ""french"" species are inferior and don't deserve mention

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

    honestly I’ve had the best luck when I use the French Riviera version to delete my hard drive:

    rm -Riv /

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    newer versions of coreutils require --no-preserve-root on /* too

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

    Also you don't want to preserve the word roots of it so you have to add --no-preserve-root

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    That's the only one I find particularly funny, the rest are just ok