Mac OS X Leopard - sudo rm -rf /

sudo rm -frv / from within Mac OS X Leopard.

For the uninitiated, this command removes OS X system files and will force a reinstall of the operating system. After restarting the system, there is enough of the OS to begin the boot process, but Leopard will stop itself at a certain point and will go into infinite loop of rebooting the MacBook.

Music from Tom's Hardware Guide video #3. Original composition by Bert Topelt.

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[MINDwedge]

on Linux does it get as far as to wipe the harddrive?

[dell1032]

Yes.  It also goes deleted everything in Mac OS 10.4.

[dell1032]

For those that 'don't get it', I've updated the video notes to better explain what's happening. Peace.

[ljuvefreya]

The purpose of these rm -rf videos on youtube is just to document what it actually looks like. Noone does this as part of a reinstall procedure. It's a waste of time ;)

[ipodguru22]

yep, thats because OS X and Linux both are based off UNIX.

[drivdal00]

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[14looze]

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[blingdead100]

@dell1032 whats the song artist and name?

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[blingdead100]

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[leraquendee]

leraquendee@valinor:~/Download­s$ sudo rm -rf /

[sudo] password for leraquendee:

safe-rm: skipping /

leraquendee@valinor:~/Download­s$

Power of safe-rm.

[OmegaDebu]

@farlensia

1. Go to Terminal

2. Type ~./Trash

3. Hit Enter

4. Type sudo rm -rf

5. Press space then drag the file you want to permanently delete into Terminal

6. Press Enter

Your file has been permanently deleted.

[andreas2tv]

i cant understund it! it SO? eazy to distroy it? then every program can distroy your system, and it does not need have root pas or be a virus!

[farlensia]

dont know about OS X but today some distros only give you:

rm: cannot remove root directory '/'

including signed in as root :/

[ivaneduardo747]

@KrunalPking Man, this is a two year old video. It costed 1000.

[KrunalPking]

no offense but your specs are shitty, how much did you pay for this? $2500 ???