{"id":8233,"date":"2004-11-18T23:52:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/18\/format-c-versus-rm-rf\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T00:56:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T21:56:26","slug":"format-c-versus-rm-rf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/18\/format-c-versus-rm-rf\/","title":{"rendered":"“format C:” versus “rm -rf \/”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jokes about “format C:” and “rm -rf \/” are pretty frequent in the computer universe. These two commands will supposedely remove all data from the hard disk – one on DOS\/Windows and another on UNIX operating systems. While widely used, this might not be exactly true. This guy<\/a> has tried both and documented the results.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Jokes about “format C:” and “rm -rf \/” are pretty frequent in the computer universe. These two commands will supposedely remove all data from the hard disk – one on DOS\/Windows and another on UNIX operating systems. While widely used, this might not be exactly true. 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