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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There's those jokes on the Windows side too (like the 'delete system32' one).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Except that you cannot actually delete System32 on Windows like you can delete your whole drive on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You can't do this on Linux anymore either. Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well. And I think it still prompts you to make sure it is really want you want to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

But here it's deleting /* and not / so I think it won't prompt you for that flag, but I'm not about to try it

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