Running rm -rf / on Linux
Posted by admin in Linux on 08 5th, 2007 | 25 responses
estaticd asked:
More details at: http://www.fsckin.com/2007/10/31/what-happens-when-you-run-rm-rf/
I’ve known for a long time to stay away from the short, sweet and simple “rm -rf /” command. It deletes every file on any writable filesystem mounted by a *nix system, but what exactly happens? This video is running on a VM and shows what happens.
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try sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/
was ez
I just tried it and now my computer doesn’t work anymore ^_^
at 1:59 the error had no font or lang to speak so thats why that happened. (squares happened)
poor tuxxD
haxax
Nah. A single pass of random data will wipe out anything beyond any hope of recovery on any drive made in the last ten years. Forget all this 27 trillion passes of some arcane pattern, it’s nonsense.
We’ve come a long, long way from MFM drives where you could see the individual bits with special magnetic ink and a microscope.
haha, that error was my favorite
it’s because when Unix was created (what Linux is based off of) , the people that made it wanted a more open and efficient working environment, with the ability to tell the computer to delete things and kill itself at will, and it’s a good thing that they havent taken that feature away because then us computer geeks would have no entertainment!lol jkjkjkjk
this isn’t formatting, its just deleting, so the files are still recoverable
The above comment was directed at zecle
lol.. this video was only to show what rm -rf / did, quit bitching. its for entertainment
if u really needed to get rid of everything, rip the hard drive out, open it up and snap the internal disk, then run a magnet through the hard drive so there is no chance of recovery
This command was made for delete files not the whole HD. It’s the same as running something like “remove C:\file.dat” on Windows. If you do “remove C:” it’s the same thing, it’s just something stupid to do. It was not made for a situation like… “Hey they’re here! go! run that command that deletes everything, go go!!”
what a great operating system
Мне чуть не поплохело от этого видео сначала, как представил что у себя так же сделаю
Спасли меня последние кадры, где видно что сделано это было из-под virtualBox’а
Windows has a similar command. See my videos.
write in fucking UTF-8
maybe hide some **** form their girlfriend…
I did that, and when I rebooted, when GRUB was loading, it said “Error 15″.
zecle a linux user would need to hide the same stuff as windows user. This video is stupid. A quick dd command would be just an secure. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$harddrive bs=512
what the point of such command ? do linux users have something to hide ? like in case of the policemen break into their home ?
fucking ******* process !
fucking *** music my friend
COOL! I never tried that… lol
WTF ???