Timeline for How far can you go with rm -rf / as root
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 10:56 | comment | added | John K | @StéphaneChazelas That was displayed in the footage too. There were errors with read-ony filesystem. Despite not deleting everything, it was enough to freeze and destroy boot (of system, not EFI) | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | If that can give some consolation, sudo rm -rf /* wouldn't delete the hidden files and directories in /. It would also fail to delete files masked by another mount point, files on read-only filesystems or pseudo-filesystems, immutable files or mount points. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 10:41 | history | answered | John K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |