• Gakomi@lemmy.world
    411·
    1 year ago

    Who the fuck does that to “live life on the edge”? And what kind of mental illnesses do you have ?

    • ashaman2007@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Having BTRFS snapshots set up for root: 😀 Elbow on the keyboard issues this command before the sudo timeout: sudo rm -rf ./testdir/cd $HOME RIP home directory 😭 and still figuring out the best way to do snapshots of home without using timeline snapshots and using a ton of space…

  • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    OS 9 on macOS did me dirty when I tried to delete it for the final time. The OS X operating system folder is named System. And the OS 9 folder is named System Folder.

    So I typed rm -rf System and then tried to type the \ character so I could put in the space between the two words. Which is right above the Return key. Guess what I hit instead of \…

    I hit control-C almost immediately but it still got through C inside the System folder. Apparently nothing absolutely vital lives in the A-C folders, btw. I was able to even reboot and it all came up normally. Only thing was I couldn’t run any Carbon apps (which was kind of crucial at the time) so I still had to do a reinstall of the OS.

      • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Usually, /home/ isn’t what gets deleted first so unless your computer can delete everything within a few seconds, ctrl-c and would work. Then you can survey the damage and reinstall the OS if necessary.

  • Gakomi@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think this is actually more damaging especially if you make a cronjob with it: sudo rm -rf “$(sudo find / -type f -print0 | shuf -n1 -z)”