sudo rm -rf /

Running sudo rm -rf / on Linux or Mac OS X deletes your entire file system while your OS is running. But the kitty survived

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1. Friendlysoul 4 years ago

At least the Kitty survived

2. dvh 4 years ago

next time try: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4k

3. randalfragger 4 years ago

Exellent!

Do the same with c:/windows/system32 and your system was break down immediatly.

If your are very paranoid with your data, you test this:

# find / -iname ".*" -exec shred \{\} \;

4. BabyJLE 4 years ago

ohh cute Kitty

5. no1home 4 years ago

and i care because...?

6. BombDiggady (moderator) 4 years ago

What the crap?

7. Cheeseburger 4 years ago

boring. Your Video ist crap!

8. pimpu 4 years ago

Haha, good one

9. Aliquantulus (moderator) 4 years ago

Good video, but tell me.. If the entire file system gets deleted, why does it say: "Cannot remove.." like 200 hundred times during the video?

BTW, can't see why it's supposed to be funny that the kitty survived.. If it was the only thing left, maybe..

10. Splat 4 years ago

@Aliquantulus

Because in Linux practically everything is represented as a file on the filesystem even if it's not a file at all. This includes things like processes, devices, network interfaces and so on and so forth. That's what most of those messages are. Obviously you can't delete your keyboard, your mouse, your internet connection, the systems random number generator, etc...

11. boxdelux 4 years ago

yawn...tell it to the digital hand...boring