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weberer
4 hours ago
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Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of wh...
`rm -rf /` will refuse to delete the root folder. You can see an example of it doing that here.
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/sudo-rm-rf
Novosell
3 hours ago
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This was the D drive though, not root, ie C drive. So rm -rf would happily delete it all.
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digitalsushi
4 hours ago
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this is not always true. this is a dangerous fun fact to memorize.
and i don't mean because there's an override flag.
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