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Always remove the French language pack from the root dir
fr
If its freshly installed, you still remember how to do it again... 15 minutes and its installed again.
Worse is managing to type your password and confirm password identically incorrectly. It takes the same 15 minutes, but also 15 minutes of not being able to believe it.
Based on a true story.
True. After 10 I decided I had enough and rebooted.
Gotta delete the French language pack
Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you're not careful enough. Fun times.
Excuse me, but that type of foolishness requires -- no-preserve-root nowadays
Not in this case. It's */ here so it expands to directories at current location. I'm sure that's a typo though
I'm not brave enough to test it on my distro, so I'll take your word on that lol
You can do echo */ and echo /* to see how they expand. Also rm -rf / already is enough without the * as it already is recursive
* is there to bypass the need for --no-preserve-root
rm -rf / needs --no-preserve-root on GNU coreutils, I think.
yes
why do they even have that lever
Originally, rm would merrily nuke your whole filesystem if you told it to. At some point, someone thought that was a pretty stupid default behaviour, so they added that flag to change the default to not nuke your entire filesystem. However, they made the change backwards compatible in case someone still needed the old behaviour. I can imagine in a container or throwaway environment, it might be vaguely reasonable to expect to be able the blat /.
See also:
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
-- Eric Allman
I'm aware of how recursive force remove works. I'm just kidding around.
Anybody brave enough to tell the MS rep this on patch night??
(You have backups, right?)
it's/*
You emptied your home directory?
The one time when misstyping your password was a good thing
Depending on where that terminal is open, you probably haven't really done much damage
I enjoy hearing the word foolish after such a long time!
make a snapshot of it and then just run the command to your heart's content
Wouldn't rm -rf / eat /home, too? That doesn't get backed up in a snapshot...
Do people actually do this?
im gonna have to obtain an testing laptop for this
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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