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by floriancargoet 5485 days ago
$ rm -rf /

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

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

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

Brilliant, at long last at least a bit of protection! :) Sadly, I can still remember doing this to my one of my first Linux installs, albeit via the classic:

rm -fr .*

On the plus side, that day I learned one hell of a lot about how Linux works ;)