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What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data (lemmy.world)
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[–] jeremy@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

chmod -R 000 /

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

In the early days of ext2, it was possible to unlink("/")

I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x