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
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
I think in these days, rm will warn you if you do a
rm -rf /
I'd imagine rm has easily caused the most destruction.
tar czf /dev/sda /home
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
Wipes the entire disk and replaced it with random data.
./fire_nukes.sh
If you have to ask, you're not ready to know.
Destructive for me or for others?
for the terminal's operating system
As a WSL user:
sudo rm -rf /mnt/c/