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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I freed my entire disk by removing the French language pack

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I recommend it too. It's simple as doing:

sudo rm -rf /

Where "-rf" obviously stands for "remove french".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The joke goes rm -fr, which stands for "remove french". Yours has double "remove" and is less believable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ops, you are right. My bad

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

(This is a joke don’t do this or you’ll ruin your computer)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

You can run it without causing any problems if you add the --no-preserve-root flag as well of course

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@MrSoup @bricked
I know but was was the parameter for 'force recursive' ?

[–] OrderedChaos 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For the curious, rm -fr /