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[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not /

[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, oof.

Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Yes,

rm -rf --allow-unsafe

Or something is required

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

--no-preserve-root

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