• Johanno
    9•10 days ago

    Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far. But at some point the system wants to load a file that is deleted and the kernel will panic. System crash. Delete incomplete. But rest assured, the important stuff is gone.

    • DefederateLemmyMl
      5•10 days ago

      Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far

      Go on then … try it.

      Or don’t because you will erase your system. (Hint: it’s in the asterisk)

      • Johanno
        2•10 days ago

        Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don’t care enough.

        • DefederateLemmyMlEnglish
          2•10 days ago

          The flag is called --no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn’t do anything here because you’re not deleting root (/), you’re deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.