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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

sudo rm -fr /

Add —no-preserve-root if you really want to make sure it’s gone! /j

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

--no-preserve-root is only required if you try to remove /. For /* I don't think it's needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah oops, I didn’t even catch that. Forgot that /* only matches to glob and thus wouldn’t try to remove /

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