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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by oriond@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Probably dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda or whatever your system volume is

[–] gens@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Posible to recover data, use /dev/urandom.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago

Only on very old hard disks, on newer disks there's no difference between overwrite patterns

[–] gorysubparbagel@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

With wear levelling on SSDs you may be able to recover some of the data

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I did have RH Linux die while updating core libs a very long time ago. It deleted them and the system shut down. No reboot possible. I eventually (like later that day) copied a set of libs from another rh system and was able to boot and recover.

Never used rh by choice again after that.