Running "sudo rm -rf /"

[SpyWhoLovedHimself]

... ... Must. Not. Input. Command... Must. NOT. Input. Shiny. Pretty. Command...

[superkimable]

aaaw the poor kitten is not happy :(

[sedme1]

how to trick a friend/enemy to do this: 1 go into notepad 2 type @ echo off 3 type title lol 4 type sudo rm -rf / 5 save as "internet explorer.bat" 6 save on the desktop 7 go into properties right click thingy and change icon 2 internet explorer 8 delete the REAL internet explorer 9 go into the recycle bin and permanently delete the real internet explorer 10 close the recycle bin

[triberofvengeance]

@sedme1 Except that won't work on Windows, except if it's a Powershell (shhh... ps1) file! ;D

[DarkRazorZ]

@sedme1 sudo rf -rf/ doesn't do anything on Windows, bro. I think you mean to delete System32

[feisal70]

Se self destruct buttons actually exist

[MrMakeman]

That's what I call a minimalist distro!

[TGKDEBIAN]

-rf REFORMATT delete aalll !!!

[TGKDEBIAN]

-rf REFORMATT

[SpecialOperations]

So Linux have an autodestruct feature? LoL

[Redcode111]

Lolz.

[Rokit10]

So it makes the Mac about as useful as it was previously?

[denteferro]

pc fucked lol

[SirAgnryFaice]

the music makes this video

[deetaha]

I am trying this right now :D

[AndyBoyization]

I just got an urge to do this

[Makenor13]

Don't try this at home

Non fatelo a casa :-D

[29732B]

YOU KILLED IT!!

[dsidewd]

sudo rm -rf /: Virtual suicide

[seantobin5]

Good music :)

[drinkstir]

hahaha! "The Kitty Survived". thats a note for PETA.

[MetalShreader]

why did the desktop not fail?

[linuxrealpower]

This is great command :)

[gosims]

sudo rm -rf /* has more entertaining results.

[Illuminatica23]

Thats Funny. I expect todo that on all UNIX Systems ;)

[DmytroAv]

i tried it on my kubuntu (lucid lynx) on virtual machine and it doesn't work

[benjamina222]

You can't delete all data on your OS partition while its running. It wont let you. And if it does, then it wouldnt run; it would just display the old Unix stopwatch meaning its waiting on the files.

[Jamesthefishy]

I love these rm -rf FAIL vids.

[Alexthekiller10]

Never I do this command on my Mac... I buy my Mac mini for 550 €, so I don't take risks. But it's cool to see this !

[alextimashkov]

in linux it can't remove half of the stuff

[samfoypainter]

@alextimashkov

It removed everything. Linux treats everything as a file, even hardware devices. So your cpu, gpu, sound card all has a file on linux. They arent real files, but just locations. Whenever sudo rm -rf / returns a cannot remove error, it is these psuedo-files it refers to

[TagSully]

Hope you were using a virtual machine, or that you saved everything. Yikes.

[rajgify]

Okay. Obviously it can't remove a device while it's running. But doing this, you're screwed anyways.

[franklinlugo]

yeahh...!

[angelmassb]

DAMN YOU

[xtrium1]

@Traenan : In fact, what cannot be deleted are the virtual files bound to the / folder using VFS; that is, mostly, /proc, /sys and /dev. All other files, though, like shell commands, config files, executables, the Linux kernel (yes !), are deleted from disk (but still work as long as they're loaded in memory).

Also, the kitty, X, and XFCE all survived because they're loaded into RAM at bootup, but reboot and they're gone. Hooray for rm -rf / ! :D

[DolgorsurenDagvadorj]

WTF is the purpose of that command?

Apart from fun....

[matthewrocks711]

@DolgorsurenDagvadorj Haxoring

[lrenjifo]

joder... ojala que el karmic ya prevea este tipo de comandos :S

[Traenan]

If you look closely idiot, it says 'OPERATION NOT PERMITTED'. You aren't deleting Linux because it won't let you that way, all you're doing is deleting your documents and anything else that the system doesn't need.

[360Carpenter]

@Traenan No it is not, Try it. Even without sudo, most distros will not load up the GUI and or Shell after you reboot

[AndresFCardenas]

severo comando jejejeje

[Mynus1234]

whats the song i like it...

[trogdordburninator]

Sam & Dave: "Gimme Some Lovin'"

[Beuhlatex]

Gimme some lovin'

Don't know the version, but there is a great one by The Blues Brothers

[rogueamp]

@Beuhlatex Completely agree. The John Beluchi one was much better.

[yo123454321]

You shouldnt be using linux if you dont understand this shit, use a kid friendly mac. or if you like linux that much use red hat which i more automated than vista

[mouseroot]

if ran in a pure cli without X it would bomb everything except certain things that was in use

[3336922299]

OMG, i want this wallpaper!

is wonderful!

[Pikestaff]

I have no idea why but the song makes this about 10 times more hilarious >_>

[ertyqwer]

so if you do 'sudo rm -rf /' you get a bunch of "cannot remove ...: permission denied", and can no longer use firefox or calculator?

[xXxCreativeCarlinxXx]

No it deletes system 32

[08u235086349h08gh3]

xXxCreativeCarlinxXx

[xXxCreativeCarlinxXx]

yes?

[08u235086349h08gh3]

i lol'd

[360Carpenter]

@xXxCreativeCarlinxXx not Windows, this is a Unix based OS.

[360Carpenter]

@ertyqwer Not just programs, the OS will not boot again (when sudo is used)

[Artelus1]

Smart kitty, went to hide in the RAM.

[DgMvEcuador]

ohhh, that was funny. It was a virtual machine...??

[suryathesun]

Hope you had fun! :P

[uhriventis]

I want the wallpaper. Where did you get it?

[mgt802]

holy shit, that's scary.

[yuriespeto3]

And this comand, works on Mac OS X!

[GShinato]

How did you record this?

[JordanN5253]

He's using a virtual machine :D

[5220640]

@JordanN5253 OMG! seriously? LoL xD

[shibotto]

Isn't it disabled by default?

[360Carpenter]

@shibotto No, can very be called by a CGI

[fraghawk42]

why do you not like linux????????

Retard

[GarryRat]

The kitty survived!

To favourites.

[brainac0cult]

if sudo rm -rf / doesnt work you can also try:

sudo rm -rf *

[pballer2oo7]

* is limited to .

[homestar92]

That's a classic unix command. The one shown in this video is Linux, which is slightly different in its command structure.

[360Carpenter]

@homestar92 Finnally some one who knows thier history. I do not find many people who now what UNIX is... Most think it is Linux distro, kind of Ironic

[pzmtuthcvpvl]

@360Carpenter well actually it kind of is, corporate would not do enough with Multics and some mechanics took it home and got it to run, some descendents of that are that so one could say that it is a distro that died stillbirth in-corpus

probably most of them think an 033 is a terminal, the 029 is a real terminal Lois Lane et al can tell you, along with Major Astro [ watch?v=QJ-W2wY0NjY ]

[animaulet2]

I have a question... removing al /, also removes the /home directory (it's another partition)?

[Anonymouscrawler]

yes, if you have the recursive switch (-r)

[animaulet2]

Thanks ;)

[Tails437]

If it's on another partion, then i guess not. That would explain why the kitty survived...

[crouchingturbo]

The kitty survived because it's in RAM.

[klulukasz]

yes, it will remove everything on all mounted partitions

[johnericson]

Yes. It's all in the same file structure. On Unix partitions are not seperated in the same way as they are on Windows.

[Artelus1]

Can someone explain to me what the command -rf means? I know that -r means to delete everything in the directory, but what is -rf?

[HotelBloedel]

Just have a look into the manpage:

-f, --force: ignore nonexistent files, never prompt.

-r, -R, --recursive: remove directories and their contents recursively

[brainac0cult]

linux makes you type "man bash" and "man mount"

i would rathr not type that

[kevburger]

Yeah, we're still working on that telepathic interface. It should just KNOW you wanted to read the man page for that command and display it.

[zequelll]

pretty sure the -r means remove a directory

[johnericson]

the -r flag means recursive deleting of directories.

[Kin632]

Running "sudo rm -rf /" deletes your Linux or Mac OS X while it is running. DO NOT EXECUTE THIS COMMAND UNLESS ITS A VIRTUAL MACHINE!!!!

[ASCII808]

this will speed up your mac boot up times. it always works

[RandomNinjaOfEvil]

ooh, that must;ve hurt.

poor kitten!

I've done this for a laugh and got bored before getting a new distro.

Quite slow....

but xfce is fast...

???

linux is the best

[macheads101]

Wow I have got a question did u just boot off a CD or USB drive or was that your main OS that you just screwed over? Just wondering. Or ur like me with three external servers somewhere else that you back up to?

[innie721]

probably vmware

[brunofin12]

Don't listen to this clown. Well I shouldn't even be saying that nobody's that stupid to believe him...

[silvernode]

lol tell the to the LFS community.

[zweiosterei]

Loved the music!

[Ocramius]

OMFG! WTF is that cat on the desktop? o.O

Anyway, good luck with restoring everything XD

[eagle416]

just about to start overhauling an Xubuntu system myself. what happens after that? can you even shut down?

[DaZhk7]

this cat is epic :o

[apokalypse24]

what is linux ?

[ale12396]

It's an OS, and it sucks.

[Halo3fan012]

Haha right, stick to your windows, sheep.

Its all about customization.

Linux rocks

[Nuva007]

enjoy not playing any games

[Halo3fan012]

What "games" do you speak of? I play alot of games. Call Of Duty, Battlefield 2, Half Life etc. .

Though usually I play on mah Xbox since Theres alot of games I like that aren't on the PC.

[Nuva007]

Wow, 2002 called, they want their games back.

[Halo3fan012]

I was talking about the series themselves..

Not Half Life 1 or Call Of Duty 1

xD You're funny.

[Nuva007]

How about Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 or Crysis Warhead?

[Halo3fan012]

Fallout 3 Sounds awesome! I can't wait to buy it! FarCry 2, I got it for the 360 since my friends play on it.. And I"m not a big fan of Crysis Warhead tbh

Is Fallout 3 awesome? I'm so hyped up! :)

[Nuva007]

Yeah it is!

[Keruaran]

Microsoft Marketing called, they are suing you for patent violation on registered patent 343490193284Bu115h17 ("method used to deter users of the proprietary Microsoft Windows operating system from installation of any GNU/Linux system; FUD delivery system").

[silvernode]

It's true, they really do stuff like that

[Keruaran]

You fail on three counts:

1. You don't understand my comment.

2. I never said Microsoft owns Linux

3. You can't spell "Linux"

[alwayschooseford]

@Keruaran Don't get on here very often.. but i have no idea what you are talking about. Nowhere on here do I misspell "Linux." And why the fuck is this a top comment? This is probably why I never get on here.

[Keruaran]

@alwayschooseford lol dude, the comment is from a year ago... It wasn't directed at you, it was a reply to Sparkpin who said ,"You fail microsoft dosent own lunix" (his spelling).

[thecombinearecoming]

@Keruaran Your feeding the trolls. Lunix is the official spelling of Linux often found on /b/ and Encyclopedia Dramatica, and he purposefully brought up the point of Microsoft because most *NIX n00bs flip out when that "unspeakable word" is mentioned.

[Keruaran]

@thecombinearecoming Dude, that comment is from a year ago... And the recent comments were only to alwayschooseford because he thought I was talking to him...

[fleetfeet2004]

@thecombinearecoming I don't understand why "Linux" is an "unspeakable word"? WTF is wrong with all you people? Seriously, Linux is just another operating system like any other. I've used Mac's, Pc's and even tried FreeBSD as well as many different Linux distro's. Hell, my school laptop is a Mac and my desktop is my custom built gaming PC I built. I dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 10.10 on my gaming rig.

[thecombinearecoming]

@fleetfeet2004 Its not, windows is. I was referring to an earlier comment by teh trollzorz

[Keruaran]

@alwayschooseford PS: See you this time next year? ;)

[OmegaVesko]

@alwayschooseford He was replying to Sparkpin's comment. You know, the comment one comment down from his? =P

[ookooweb]

(reply to nuva007)

you can PLAY games on Linux, for example doom 1,2,3 and duke nukem 3D(with hrp) and any dos games, as well Prey, and others.

But of course those windowsfanboyz dont know it.

and I myself perfer gaming consoles

[camadai]

++++1

[camadai]

a terminator

[chile1212]

:D  .

[nofrillzzz]

You can't even wipe the whole hard drive in root? It says permission denied on half the files in your terminal. Unless you aren't running it in root. But of course, I'm sure it won't let you delete the OS in root anyway.

[alwayschooseford]

yes it does, the hard drive was wiped clean. not a file on it. those are not "files" where it was having permission errors. those are hard links to hardware devices. deleting them would be the equivilent of deleting your video card, sound card, etc. it cannot be done by anything and it does not exist as an actual file, it just shows up as one for ease of use

[chile1212]

nofrillzzz is a n00b

[nofrillzzz]

Lol, Tom, you don't even know how to install any *nix dist - your stuck with Vista noob. Nice to know your looking through my favorites :p

[TacoTown241]

Damn, what was that on your desktop? A baby gremlin?

[IdOnTLikEtHiSrAp]

lol computer jackass XD thank you

[Adminyx]

Heres a list of all the bad commands rm -rf / rm -rf . rm -rf * rm -r .[^.]* mkfs mkfs.ext3 mkfs.anything any_command > /dev/sda dd if=something of=/dev/sda :(){:|:&};: fork while fork (({(in perl)})) python -c 'import os; os.system("".join([chr(ord(i)-­1) for i in "sn!.sg!+"]))' The * looks cooler than / i prefer the fourth one over all. BTW NVM you don't use * after /.

[Adminyx]

actually nvm the * does work after / I just typed it wrong in terminal when trying to delete a test folder. The * deletes everything in it not the folder itself. Either way Linux go bye bye

[Adminyx]

you need the hash after the / so it would look like sudo rm -rf /*

[alwayschooseford]

no, that is what the "r" does, it is recursive it means that it deletes all folders and contents

[Adminyx]

Dude it works with the * too. * is always wild card which defines all folders in that directory.

[Crana]

It's unnecessary, why type more than you have to?

[Adminyx]

Ask yourself this. If you wanted to do a command that would delete your whole hard drive, would you do something simple?

[etherous]

Remember, if you do this accidentally, the only thing that will protect you is typing this:

:(){:|:&};:

[GegoXaren]

fork bomb!

[ras0ir]

haha nice xD

[Katalyzt]

Heh

[anangel13]

Outch!! And why is it still so tempting to try.... :o)?

~Angel XIII~

[theJojan]

If you're using later version of GNUs rm you need to type "sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /". Now it would by default give "sudo rm -rf --preserve-root /" which then preserves the root.

[calrogman]

Yay kitteh survives!

[tommyratboy]

lol you killed linux nooooooooooooo

[Masterchief2400]

If i use vmware workstation have ubuntu running in the workstation and vista being the host and run sudo rm rf in vmware will it delete the host operateing system or just the vmware

[alwayschooseford]

Just the guest os (Ubuntu). This is running Virtualbox with an Xubuntu guest on a Debian host.

[bastion1232]

Lol, I can't watch after it prompts you for your password. Now I need to find a video of wine running a windows virus :)

[funnyent]

I did this before i knew what is was :( CAn i fix it? IM running mac os x leopard

[MJGrindboy]

Nope. It's literally deleted every file which makes up the operating system. The moral of the story is to make operating systems out of kittens because they survive!

[randylikesdrums]

you destructive bastard!

j/k ;)

[jvdthwip]

deltree system32

[Cenetive]

Protip: deltree won't work on anything newer than win98 or so.

And for those where it works, do it like deltree /y something, so it won't prompt for the user..

[jvdthwip]

Deltree.exe was included through Win4.9 (ME).

It won't work in NT4 and above because they don't use DOS, of course.

As far as I know it should work in all non-NT Windows.

[Drag0nTrainer]

More than funny. Do you want to f... an Ubuntu distro in a more "shy" form? On terminal write: sudo chroot rwrwx /* -r

You'll be f..d: Impossible to run anything as root until you reboot in safe mode and fix files manually. I had to reformat my hd drive after this experiment. Edubuntu 7.10. XD

[baronofyourdreams]

Every time you sudo rm -rf, an Ubuntu fanboi gets his wings.

:P

[wywijas1982]

running ubuntu. When this command the system replied "cannot remove root directory /"

[LegendaryKirby]

Best horror short clip I've watched.

[AndyMVK985]

Now do

sudo shred -rf /

so nothing can be recovered.

[samusgravity]

The KITTY survived!!

[Glurak42]

Because it was hidden in VRAM.

[damaband41]

how did you make the terminal transparent?

[chriszanf]

if you go to the properties of the terminal, you will see a tab called "schema", there you can alter the background so that it displays a specified colour, wallpaper or transparancy.

[damaband41]

ok i did that but how do you make it darker than the background? My terminal screen is now transparent but still not dark like his. Also how do ou change the scroll bar cursor to green?

[chriszanf]

I cant answer all these questions in a limited comment box like this and really, if youre going to use linux then youll need to learn to search things for yourself [google is your friend]

[LocutusDiBorg]

you have some updates on your system...

:D

(I can see them in the top - right of your screen...)

Do them!!!

ahahahahahah

[damaband41]

I don't think it matters anymore...

[BergerKing064]

hmmm. makes me sad to see an ubuntu die but it is a nice way to wipe the hard drive of sensitive info if ur guna throw it away

[chriszanf]

the hdd can still be recovered using data recovery software.

the only truly way to make sure private data is not recovered is to smash the hdd with a hammer.

[BergerKing064]

i disagree many ways. u could open the hdd and wipe it with a magnet and u could also use a forkbomb (is that wats its called) to fill it with random info after running rm -rf and then deleting that

[nagfree]

It's a program called 'dd'. A forkbomb is a completely different thing.

[rlbond]

not with ext3, your stuff is gone.

[RustyJ]

This would only be a problem if you have superuser priviliges.

[lenthemofo]

note that the command he is running is: sudo rm -rf /. the sudo indicates that he runs the command as super user. sudo means Super User DO

[IvoriesAblaze]

The kitty survived!!!

[mrtophatman]

thanks for f*ckin ur computer for the sake of this video :)