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Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won't go too far. But at some point the system wants to load a file that is deleted and the kernel will panic. System crash. Delete incomplete. But rest assured, the important stuff is gone.
Go on then ... try it.
Or don't because you will erase your system. (Hint: it's in the asterisk)
Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don't care enough.
The flag is called
--no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn't do anything here because you're not deleting root (/), you're deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.Pretty sure it's --no-preserve-root or something similar.