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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by __david__ on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:10PM (#11499957)
Nope (almost never), which is why GNU rm requires the '--no-preserve-root' flag if you actually want to do that for some reason.
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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by timseal on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:36PM (#11500137)
In the manpage for rm, I see "--no-preserve-root do not treat ‘/’ specially (the default)". For real? The default is to do the worst thing?
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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by cyphar on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:10AM (#11502715)
No, the default is to do nothing. The (default) refers to "treat root specially" not the flag.
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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by megacity on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:34PM (#11500119)
What are the almost never situations?

I'd be super interested, because I cannot think of one at all :D

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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li... by randyrand on Thursday April 14, 2016 @06:52PM (#11500902)
Cops / assailant about to bust down your door and its all you know / have time for?
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