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    [–] Hildegarde 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    --no-preserve-root

    disables the wipe your system protection. Without this option rm can only wipe current directory if you input / as a location.

    -f

    means force, will not prompt the user for any reason.

    -r

    means recursive, rm will enter any directory selected and delete all the contents.

    rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

    The above command WILL wipe your system. It will delete all files your user has access to, and it will give you no feedback warning you what's going on. Be careful.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh jeebus! Hahaha. Thank you so much for the explanation! I am extremely careful in terminal. I don’t find myself there often now that I’ve got my web apps set up.

    Now to learn how to successfully install something using Docker… There’s so many VARIABLES in Portainer to get something installed! I have not had one success as of yet, but I’m only on my first week of learning. Got it running as a file server successfully, though!

    Every TV in my house now gets King of the Hill RANDOMIZER and it’s bliss.