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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is not malicious because it will not work. You'd need --no-preserve-root to actually do anything.

Edit seems I was wrong

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The use of /* might get around that, because the shell expands it to /usr /var /lib /home etc.