wearing thigh highs, sitting next to a Thinkpad laptop running Arch Linux

wearing thigh highs, with a closed laptop featuring several tech stickers on it

    • JCreazy
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      8 months ago

      I don’t even think that command works anymore.

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          8 months ago

          They’re right. The modern versions of rm have a safe guard and you need to type --no-preserve-root to force it to delete /.

          You can also just do sudo rm -rf /* and let shell expansion do the rest.

          WARNING: DO NOT RUN THESE COMMANDS. THEY WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON YOUR ROOT PARTITION.