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Literally in tears rn (infosec.pub)

submitted 16 hours ago by alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.world

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[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

didn't let me remove root. i ran the command with sudo and it just kept saying "can't remove root". i'm using UTM on macOS tahoe

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

you can maybe use strace to find where this text is coming from, btw.

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

i've been a macbro for 8 years but i just got into linux, what....two days ago? so i don't know any of the lingo. but i just googled strace,looks like it's good for debugging shit. neat! i try to do as much as i can from the terminal as possible

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

if it just says that and doesn't do anything, there's some extra safety added, maybe in sudo or the shell.

otherwise, it can't remove "/", because it's a mount point in use. the point is that the recursive switch removes all subdirs, which are not mount points, leaving just empty disks an a handful dirs behind.

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

after i ran it, none of my commands worked. well of course they didn't work, everything but root got wiped, so goodbye /usr/bin and all that

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I did that on purpose once to test Timeshift's restore. I had to boot to a live image to run the restoration, but it worked great! Very impressed.
Only applies if the Timeshift directory is not in the removed path.