I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

You can still break your /etc folder. But many other folders are safe.

Personally I do both.

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