• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    It’s a good thing that new and unexperienced users who want to learn 😃 on the internet get recommendations such as “use rm -fr / to remove the french language pack and fix your localization issues” and then ending up with an expensive, broken hardware (/s)

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      4 months ago

      rm -rf / only deletes everything on the / partition and any currently mounted filesystems, since efi is its own partition and not mounted it wouldn’t be touched

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        not mounted

        I agree with you, the EFI variables shouldn’t be mounted by default. Unfortunately, on some systems, they are.

        There was even a huge fight about that. I’m too lazy to look it up now, though.