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A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click
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Don't most distros have safeguards against this? I tried
sudo rm -rf /
in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not
/
Oh, oof.
Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.
Yes,
rm -rf --allow-unsafe
Or something is required
--no-preserve-root