sudo rm -rf /* - What Happens? | 50 Sub Special

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First things first... do NOT run this command on an actual computer.

Thank you for the support to get me to 50 Subscribers - it really is appreciated, so here's a fun video to celebrate and say thank you!

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If you want to try this out for yourself without harming anyone's computer, then create a virtual machine with your favourite Linux distro and type in the command.

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A lot of people would say Ubuntu was broken before you started. All my time in virtual machines I'm surprised I've never tried this.

macmccune
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I was about to run this command unknowingly. But I decided to view some videos before running this command. You saved me thanks

vijaySingle
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You still have the most important Linux program.
1:40 nevermind

kjell
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Sudo rm -rf /* is the deleting System32 of Linux.

horsepowermultimedia
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I actually had this happen on a real production IT system that I was working towards taking over the management of. I was working for an outsourcing company, and the system was in production and being operated and managed by the application vendor.

The reason we hadn't taken it over was because there was zero operational documentation and zero scripted operations. So the vendor was operating it manually based on instructions scribbled on a scrap of paper.

These instructions said: 1. "cd /tmp"; 2. "rm -yr *"; 3. "reboot".

Unfortunately, one evening having done step one, the operator received a telephone support call and as part of answering that he went root (presumably with "sudo -i" which put him back in the root directory). When he finished the call he executed steps 2 and 3 without exiting root thus doing EXACTLY what this video shows.

D'UH!!!

To cap it all, it then turned out that the system backups hadn't been working either and hadn't been tested and it took them 2 or 3 weeks to rebuild this production system. DOUBLE

I might add that this was one of two similar screw ups (the other resulting from deletion of the production SQL database) at the end of a disastrous fixed price application development where the system has already been rejected and redeveloped from scratch and where the initial go live was abandoned twice, once because an untested system timezone change caused it to fail, and once because the system has never been tested on a production sized database, and several missing indexes resulted in use response times on a linked production customer call healing system going from 1sec to over 30mins.

Put simply a fiasco from start to finish from a MAJOR MAJOR software house.

SodalisUK
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You should have added a -v attribute for verbosity, and to see the progress of deleting

The-Dev-Ninja
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Basically if you have the toy story 2 movie on your disk, it starts deleting the movie.

visionxdark
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Gosh. That's a reeeally bad thing to do to people.

matheuscardoso
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i was looking about how to fix a file AND the first video YouTube recommended is that! LOL

eminemi
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need more vids of you braking stuff its fun

kohakupiss
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I'm disappointed you didn't look at the contents of / from a live usb

waldolemmer
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"First things first... do NOT run this command on an actual computer."
Too late. I already did. In live on discord. My computer still running tho

jocadbz
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And after reboot just an indifferent "Unknown command Reminds me of my tax buro.

Yetipfote
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is there a way to circumvent the "permission denied" files and really delete everything? :D

danielzaiser
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Can you rebuild the vm from the tty after reboot? Like a from scratch install?

swagmuffin
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Even ANDROID can get this risk on rooted device :-(

pursuit
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I once ran rm -rf / by accident
thankfully I wasn't running it as root ;)

markusTegelane
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How he still managed to screen record it?

aravindalokam
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lol i have a broken laptop with ubuntu at home

mihxqvi
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this is good for a students joke hahahahaha

bngocy