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lol sudo rm -rf / (feddit.de)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Also it's just wrong advice, since you explicitly need --no-preserve-root for it to work... /s

Jokes aside, please don't troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn't blindly trust people online.

But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There's always a high chance of collateral damage

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if one would fall for this, do you really think that they know how to backup and restore backups?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued... Luckily B had a VM backup.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/* will fix your disk?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sudo: command not found

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Isn't auto capitalization a bitch 🫠

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ok you made me spit out my drink. Good job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You deserve points for creativity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I don't know if it's recursive or even if it even accepts wildcards but it's probably best if it doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

don't need --no-preserve-rootif you use /*