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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] zephyr@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone is talking about rm -rf / and damage to storage drives, but I read somewhere about EFI variables having something to do with bricking the computer. If this is possible, then it's a lot more damage than just disk drives.

Edit: this is interesting SE post https://superuser.com/questions/313850