What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?

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Probably dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda or whatever your system volume is

Posible to recover data, use /dev/urandom.

Only on very old hard disks, on newer disks there's no difference between overwrite patterns

I did have RH Linux die while updating core libs a very long time ago. It deleted them and the system shut down. No reboot possible. I eventually (like later that day) copied a set of libs from another rh system and was able to boot and recover.

Never used rh by choice again after that.

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