@RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoA Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one clickwww.mikrobitti.fiexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkA Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one clickwww.mikrobitti.fi@RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilink19•1 year agoDon’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish14•1 year agoit apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not /
Don’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried
sudo rm -rf /in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not
/Oh, oof.
Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.
Yes,
rm -rf --allow-unsafeOr something is required
--no-preserve-root