I am going to run that command that we are not supposed to run

[barbedsaber]

yes you heard that right,I am going to run sudo rm-rf (which you should never do, ever) because I broke my ubuntu install badly, and I cant be bothered fixing it. I will obviously back up my stuff first, (I have over 3 gigs of you tube videos, that I don't want to lose just to start with) I am going to film what happens, to show other people that it is a BAD IDEA. then I will reinstall, and not break it this time.

what do you think, do we need 1 more don't do this because aliens will eat your skin video on you tube?

(just so you know, sudo means super user do, giving you root privileges, its like saying I am god, now do what I say, rm means remove, as in delete permanently, r means recursive, so it will drill down through all your folders f means force, so even though it is a BAD idea, no warnings will be displayed, and it will just do it, and / means your file system, the whole thing, and all things containd within) this is gonna be fun!

[K.Mandla]

People keep YouTube videos? I had no idea. Why?

[barbedsaber]

to teach people what happens, and why it is a bad idea, the desktop backround survives, but if you do a search for rm-rf on youtube, you find a few.

[karellen]

yeap, very original idea. I'm sure it has never been done before

[K.Mandla]

to teach people what happens, and why it is a bad idea, the desktop backround survives, but if you do a search for rm-rf on youtube, you find a few.
No, wait. I mean, you said you have 3Gb of YouTube videos. Why do you save YouTube videos?

[chucky chuckaluck]

I am going to film what happens, to show other people that it is a BAD IDEA.

you've forgotten the 'lemming mentality'. others will see you do it and they'll want to do it too. you'll be the st. paul of rm-rf.

[barbedsaber]

No, wait. I mean, you said you have 3Gb of YouTube videos. Why do you save YouTube videos?

some of them are worth watchin again, like this http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

[barbedsaber]

you've forgotten the 'lemming mentality'. others will see you do it and they'll want to do it to. you'll be the st. paul of rm-rf.


are you saying, that if someone is walking down the street, and they see someone else shoot themself, they will go, buy a gun, and shoot them self to see what it feels like? because they deserve to get shot.

[K.Mandla]

So you save them ... so you can watch them offline?

[sisco311]

some of them are worth watchin again, like this http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
or this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fzInlyYQo

[barbedsaber]

So you save them ... so you can watch them offline?


yeah, or becaus I only have 5 gigs of downloads a month, and I dont want to spend it watching the same thing, when I can download it once, and then watch it whenever I want.

[chucky chuckaluck]

are you saying, that if someone is walking down the street, and they see someone else shoot themself, they will go, buy a gun, and shoot them self to see what it feels like? because they deserve to get shot.

do you equate doing rm-rf to shooting oneself? if so, is there someone we could call for you? family member? local priest? trusted friend?

[K.Mandla]

yeah, or becaus I only have 5 gigs of downloads a month, and I dont want to spend it watching the same thing, when I can download it once, and then watch it whenever I want.
Okay, I guess that makes sense. I hadn't ever really thought about doing that before, but you make a good case for it.

[barbedsaber]

Okay, I guess that makes sense. I hadn't ever really thought about doing that before, but you make a good case for it.

umm, Yay?

[MyNameisTheStig]

are you saying, that if someone is walking down the street, and they see someone else shoot themself, they will go, buy a gun, and shoot them self to see what it feels like? because they deserve to get shot.

lol, canny nice logic there: -
"if you shoot yourself, you should be shot"

I want to see this ridiculous video of yours, and, obviously, I'm going to copy you

sudo rm-rf, I'll have to remember that one, it reminds me of sectumsempra in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[intense.ego]

yeah, or becaus I only have 5 gigs of downloads a month, and I dont want to spend it watching the same thing, when I can download it once, and then watch it whenever I want.

I used to do the same thing when I lived in south africa. We got only 3gb of down/upload a month and we had to save as much as we could.

[Tux.Ice]

well im dumb.

i have this tendencie to blindly run commands. right after reading this thread and watching some you tube videos i open up a terminal and put in sudo -i
rm-rf / && rm-rf *


currently running from a live cd

[eragon100]

Ruining a mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfihcLJLeo&feature=related

[chewearn]

or this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fzInlyYQo


It took less than 3 minutes to complete? I don't believe it. Will try it now to confirm and post back in 3 minutes.

[eragon100]

it has been 6 minutes already:)

[chewearn]

it has been 6 minutes already:)

Sorry, one of the related video is running the same thing for generic linux. Which has related video called "Valentine's Day Surprises" and I was promptly distracted.

[maagimies]

It took less than 3 minutes to complete? I don't believe it. Will try it now to confirm and post back in 3 minutes.When you remove a file, the information about that file is just removed from the filesystem index, the actual data from that file will just now be *somewhere* on the hard-drive, on the area that is now marked as empty.
If you really want to wipe clean a hard-drive, you dump the device-file full of zeroes/random data.

[chewearn]

When you remove a file, the information about that file is just removed from the filesystem index, the actual data from that file will just now be *somewhere* on the hard-drive, on the area that is now marked as empty.
If you really want to wipe clean a hard-drive, you dump the device-file full of zeroes/random data.

In case there was a misunderstanding, I was trying to make a lame joke.

:mrgreen:

[chucky chuckaluck]

i can understand the need to download youtube vids as a number of my favorites have been removed.

[intense.ego]

Sorry, one of the related video is running the same thing for generic linux. Which has related video called "Valentine's Day Surprises" and I was promptly distracted.

The same thing happened to me ;)

[diablo75]

He's saving YouPorn videos, not YouTube videos probably :P

[Spike-X]

some of them are worth watchin again, like this http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
That wasn't even worth watching once. Can I have my two minutes back please?

[Old Marcus]

Just did the 10 character command on gutsy in VB, and it's quite fun. :) Though probably not that fun if it ever happens to your host OS.

I tried it in an installation of Hardy in VB and said it couldn't delete /. I assume something has been added to stop you being able to wipe it with rm -rf? It could wipe other directories fine. 'sudo rm -rf /home/[name]/Documents worked fine. This was with the default account.