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Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don't have a VM handy to test, but without the "--no-preserve-root" flag it should give an error.
(Don't actually run that command on a machine you care about, I'm only 80% confident.)
Nope, it absolutely won't let you
Goddamn this mf really did hold the gun up to his own head and pulled the trigger just to prove it would go click.
Maybe he did it in a vm
Nope, I'm on bare metal :)
You are ice cold metal, my friend 🤘
Gotta test the guardrails sometimes...
could this be based on the distro?
or is it built into the kernel?
It was made default for rm command in 2006.