[Swlug] Mint difficulties

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 06:52, Neil Greenwood via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, 21:28 Keith Edmunds via Swlug, <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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>> Anyone want to speculate about what happened?
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> You get an error message and it refuses to delete all your files.
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> However, rm minus-rf ~ does still remove your home directory, if I remember rightly.

It is good that a trap has been put in for the system delete, I will
have to stop spreading that fake news.  I wonder what happens if you
try to delete /etc/
I will have to try it next time I am reinstalling a system.

Colin