> I might add, on a older rig I tried that command once. I ran rm -rfv /* > and it didn't erase everything like I thought it would. I figured the > command would be loaded in ram and would run until the end of the / > structure. It didn't. I can't recall how far it got now but I think it > was in the /proc directory. I figure it deleted the process and sort of > forgot to finish. It's been a while since I did that tho. Details are > fuzzy.
# rm -rfv / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’ rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe # rm -rfv --no-preserve-root / ** deletes lots of stuff** ** cannot delete in /proc ** ** cannot delete in /sys ** ** deletes more stuff ** ** finshed with status 0 ** System broken :-) Don't worry, it was only a virtual machine.
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