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It's ridiculous clickbait anyway, on the order of those "1 simple trick" articles, and as they do providing pretty much zero useful information.
For starters: GNU coreutils's "rm" has a check for the root directory, and has had for about 21 years; the default being to fail the command given in the article for about 18 years.
Super UserIs it possible to remove the root directory?I noticed in the documentation for rm as obtained by rm --help the following flag:
--no-preserve-root do not treat `/' specially
What does this mean? Is it actually possible to delete the root