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dd if=/dev/zero of=/var
But really, remove what you don't use and/or stop using flatpak.
FYI Don’t use this command. I think it was intended as a joke, but I just want to clarify.
That's why I didn't include any privilege escalation, even if someone ran it as is it would fail. But a warning is also appropriate, thanks.
That doesn't make it better.
The first thing a novice user learns is to slap
sudoin the front if they don't have access to do something.Nobody puts var on its own partition anymore, it would sill fail.
He either has var on a dedicated partition or has a 12 gb drive in 2025
Wouldn't that just make a file full of zeros?
I think the proper (joke) command here would be
rm -rf /var/*
It would probably fail unless var was a block device actually. It wouldn't turn a directory in to a file.