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[–] [email protected] 209 points 5 months ago (28 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Should only be used with extreme caution and if you know what you are doing.

Ok. What is the actual use case for “rm -rf /“ even if you know what you are doing and using extreme caution? If you want to wipe a disk, there are better ways to do it, and you certainly wouldn’t want that disk mounted on / when you do it, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

There isn't. It's just the fact that it will. The command can/is used often to remove other directories

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