I agree that there&#x27;s no promise it&#x27;s a file. After all, fuse will let you mount anything as a filesystem. But I&#x27;m trying to think of another file I can &quot;delete&quot; and permanently hose my computer, but I&#x27;m coming up blank. Maybe some fuse filesystem somewhere can do it, but none of the ones I&#x27;ve used.<p>I mean, yeah, I&#x27;ve destroyed many a partition table in my day, and I&#x27;ve permanently lost myself some data, I&#x27;ve even dd&#x27;ed in the wrong direction with no recourse but to suck it up and deal with it, but I&#x27;ve never fried a computer with a rm command. (Contrary to what some commenters seems to be viciously defending, this does seem to be a legitimately different level of destructive possibility than has conventionally been available. This is the sort of thing that would put me off having ever installed Linux in the first place.)