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Re:United States Sentencing Commission website hacked by oasisbob on Saturday January 26, 2013 @03:59AM (#5119797)
Sure you can. (Just gave it a shot on a Ubuntu VM the other day while exploring shared library linking.)

Do some systems really have a flag more forceful than -f ?

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Re:United States Sentencing Commission website hacked by nwh on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:11AM (#5119825)
Debian:

    # rm -rf /
    rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
    rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this fail safe
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Re:United States Sentencing Commission website hacked by oasisbob on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:18AM (#5119845)
Huh, sure enough, I stand corrected. Must have entirely forgot that I added that option while rushing to play around while things were being removed. Thanks!
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