• Johanno@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don’t care enough.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      The flag is called --no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn’t do anything here because you’re not deleting root (/), you’re deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.