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Meanwhile on Linux: /boot successfully deleted
I once deleted /dev/null Do not recommend. You’d be surprised how much of the system needs it.
I once deleted /dev/urandom. I didn't want uncertainty in my life.
Well, I was on for a surprise.
well, i guess your pc got into a pretty certain state of being, at least for that evening, so technically it worked:)
How? I could've sworn it wasn't even a "real" file. I thought the file system just had special rules for interacting with that name.