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Down that hole

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what exactly does that command do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deletes all the files in the root-dir recursively (needs sudo).
Without sudo all user-accessible files will be removed.
This will also affect all mounted drives (like USB-Drives, ...) and on some motherbords can also corrupt the UEFI.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the UEFI is corrupted is there a way to even boot a Live Environment?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you run a faulty UEFI-implementation then rm can turn you PC into a decorative pice of PCB.
See this answer.