What happens if you `rm -rf /` in Linux (Ubuntu)?

14 thoughts on “What happens if you `rm -rf /` in Linux (Ubuntu)?”

• use –no-preserve-root

• Thing we wanted to know but never dared to try

• This, my friends. This is the purest form of science.

• run rm in the background so it won't crash when your terminal crashes and actually wipes everything

• Sounds like you have a nice mechanical keyboard there

• "It's actually deleting it, no way".
  Yes, hard to believe it will do what you tell it

• A good backup may have helped?

• "Hello everyone! This is YOUR daily dose of breaking Linux."

• sudo cp * /* is more interesting 🙂
  Update, no longer works thanks to systemd but these are also interesting and are real world mistakes🙂
  sudo find / -name * –delete
  sudo chmod -R 000 /

• Bloated

• your voice CHANGED lol

• are you roblox

• Minimal install🎉👍

• im you

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