Also it’s just wrong advice, since you explicitly need --no-preserve-root for it to work… /s
Jokes aside, please don’t troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn’t blindly trust people online.
But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There’s always a high chance of collateral damage
I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued… Luckily B had a VM backup.
Also it’s just wrong advice, since you explicitly need
--no-preserve-rootfor it to work… /sJokes aside, please don’t troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn’t blindly trust people online.
But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There’s always a high chance of collateral damage
if one would fall for this, do you really think that they know how to backup and restore backups?
I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued… Luckily B had a VM backup.
Sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/*will fix your disk?Sudo: command not foundIsn’t auto capitalization a bitch 🫠
Ok you made me spit out my drink. Good job.
You deserve points for creativity
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s recursive or even if it even accepts wildcards but it’s probably best if it doesn’t work.
don’t need
--no-preserve-rootif you use/*