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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Joke's on you, user has virtualized windows ME.

But on a serious note, doesn't that simply kill the virtual machine with a useless amount of load? What is different on MacOS? As in: couldn't I do the same with any virtual machine independently of the host OS?

Not familiar with MacOS at all but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple just doesn't respect the VM and has some "safeguard" intervention mechanic...

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

mount --bind

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

warning: do not attempt if linux is your actual OS, this shit is for virtual macbros ONLY

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not? A VM is a VM. You can remove root in there just fine?

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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 1 day 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 1 day 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 11 hours 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.