• RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    I was going to ask what to do if i use windows, but then i realize this is Lemmy and that you need a Linux computer to make an account

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    2 months ago

    No that only reduces disk space which only really mattered for hard drives.

    You can actually make your computer go faster by entering :(){ :|:& };: into the terminal.

    It’ll tell Linux to max out the CPU performance.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago
    > sudo rm -rf /*
    Remove-Item: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'rf'.
    

    later unixtards

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    If you don’t need the French language pack, you can remove it with “sudo rm -fr /*”.

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      I’ve been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn’t know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

      I didn’t believe ‘*’ is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it’s insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.

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      2 months 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.

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        2 months 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)

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          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.

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            2 months 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.

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      I think it would continue even after it’s own deletion as the binary is already loaded into memory, so process is not dependent on the file system. Still doubt that it’ll complete successfully. Most likely the system crashes in the middle.

      • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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        2 months ago

        as the binary is already loaded into memory

        That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to rm.

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          Yes, though you could also do rm -rf /* afaik to not need --no-preserve-root

          Edit: I just realized that the * is already in the meme. So this should already work as is. Alternatively you could always use the good old way of “act now and remove all French roots of your system: rm -fr / --no-preserve-root

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              because it won’t let you do that:

              elvith@testvm:~$ sudo rm -fr /

              rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’

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