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[โ€“] blibla@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i dont get why you can't just do sudo rm -fr /

[โ€“] elvith 2 points 1 week ago

because it won't let you do that:

elvith@testvm:~$ sudo rm -fr /

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'

rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe