alt Hacker News`rm -rf /` will refuse to delete the root folder. You can see an example of it doing that here.
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digitalsushi • today at 3:23 PM
this is not always true. this is a dangerous fun fact to memorize.
and i don't mean because there's an override flag.
This was the D drive though, not root, ie C drive. So rm -rf would happily delete it all.