• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    when you’re in a chroot and you want to wipe only that whole part. you can’t format the chroot, because it’s just a subtree of the filesystem you want to keep.

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      10 months ago

      Ok I was thinking of a chroot env as being the only possible use case for this command.