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    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    [โ€“] xkforce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    How is letting you brick your install with little warning an advantage?

    rm -rf / you dont have permission to do that.

    sudo rm -rf / [linux dutifully commits sudoku until rm itself is gone]

    [โ€“] Romanmir@lemmy.today 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And I think itโ€™ll remove โ€œrmโ€ and keep right on going because Linux copies commands to ram then runs them, yeah?

    [โ€“] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh yeah. I've done it just for fun before reimaging a machine. It will mostly complete (some stuff isn't a real file so rm just fails), and your desktop environment will remain up and running while it happen. Then errors start popping up, icons stop working, nothing loads anymore, you can't reboot or shutdown because those were actually commands, and they're missing now...

    [โ€“] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    Hmm I mean Ive never done it for obvious reasons but maybe? live cds/dvds load the whole OS in RAM and could erase everything but I am not sure about the OS on disk. I could try it in a vm and see what actually happens

    [โ€“] Ooops@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

    Yes, it's copied to ram. Which is also the reason you don't need to stop programs while live updating them.

    The new version is only again copied from disk, when you start it at a later time.

    [โ€“] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    If your computer is doing puzzles while running the mindless tasks you assign itโ€ฆ. I suggest maybe finding more stimulating tasks. Just sayingโ€ฆ ;)

    [โ€“] theluckyone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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