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Dave

rm doesn't let you delete root anymore.

They fixed that, check the manpage.

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Raphael Habereder • Edited

That doesn't mean that a cleaned out /etc/ or any other system-critical directory won't hurt you a lot. Sure, you can't "kill" a linux box with RM anymore, but you can still make it pretty damn unusable

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Dave

Isn't that what good permissions, not running as root by default, and backups, are all for?

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Raphael Habereder

Considering we are discussing this in a beginners post about Linux, the foundation of careful usage should still apply.

Other than that, yes you are certainly right. A beginner probably doesn't have these precautions in place though.

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