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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Also it's just wrong advice, since you explicitly need --no-preserve-root for it to work... /s

Jokes aside, please don't troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn't blindly trust people online.

But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There's always a high chance of collateral damage

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    if one would fall for this, do you really think that they know how to backup and restore backups?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued... Luckily B had a VM backup.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/* will fix your disk?

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