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[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

I thought - - no-preserve root also needed to be added as an argument for self destruct to completely work.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

Yes, though you could also do rm -rf /* afaik to not need --no-preserve-root

[-] blibla@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

i dont get why you can't just do sudo rm -fr /

[-] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

because it won't let you do that:

elvith@testvm:~$ sudo rm -fr /

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'

rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

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