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.
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.
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.
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”
Does this really work? Wouldn’t
rmremove itself in/binearly in the process?rm doesn’t remove memory in RAM
That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to
rm.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.
Go on then … try it.
Or don’t because you will erase your system. (Hint: it’s in the asterisk)
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.
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.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.
That’s not the reason why it continues. It’s because there’s still a file descriptor open to
rm.I thought - - no-preserve root also needed to be added as an argument for self destruct to completely work.
Yes, though you could also do
rm -rf /*afaik to not need--no-preserve-rootEdit: 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”i dont get why you can’t just do
sudo rm -fr /because it won’t let you do that: