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I'm thinking of dualbooting Windows 10 and Ubuntu in different partitions of the same SSD. If codes like rm -rf
somehow happens in the Ubuntu partition, does this affect Windows, or does it leave other partitions alone? And if it DOES affect the Windows partition, how can I prevent this from happening?
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I'm thinking of dualbooting Windows 10 and Ubuntu in different partitions of the same SSD. If codes like rm -rf
somehow happens in the Ubuntu partition, does this affect Windows, or does it leave other partitions alone? And if it DOES affect the Windows partition, how can I prevent this from happening?
dual-boot partitioning 18.04 windows-10
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I'm thinking of dualbooting Windows 10 and Ubuntu in different partitions of the same SSD. If codes like rm -rf
somehow happens in the Ubuntu partition, does this affect Windows, or does it leave other partitions alone? And if it DOES affect the Windows partition, how can I prevent this from happening?
dual-boot partitioning 18.04 windows-10
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I'm thinking of dualbooting Windows 10 and Ubuntu in different partitions of the same SSD. If codes like rm -rf
somehow happens in the Ubuntu partition, does this affect Windows, or does it leave other partitions alone? And if it DOES affect the Windows partition, how can I prevent this from happening?
dual-boot partitioning 18.04 windows-10
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It doesn't affect the windows partition, because you're running it from your Ubuntu machine.
Picture it like this
/dev/sda1 ntfs-bootfile
/dev/sda2 ntfs-win
/dev/sda5 ext4-root --> (YOUR LOCATION NOW)
/dev/sda6 ext4-swap
If you run rm -rf
within your location, it would affect sda5
partition—in which your Ubuntu system reside. So it only affect Ubuntu.
Supposing you have grub boot loader to load the 2 OS (Ubuntu and Windows), if you accidentally remove GRUB
file aswell, Windows would not be able to boot, but the data inside will remain intact.
1
The OP asks about "codes likerm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For examplecat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.
– john01dav
9 mins ago
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No it does not effect the windows partition.
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It doesn't affect the windows partition, because you're running it from your Ubuntu machine.
Picture it like this
/dev/sda1 ntfs-bootfile
/dev/sda2 ntfs-win
/dev/sda5 ext4-root --> (YOUR LOCATION NOW)
/dev/sda6 ext4-swap
If you run rm -rf
within your location, it would affect sda5
partition—in which your Ubuntu system reside. So it only affect Ubuntu.
Supposing you have grub boot loader to load the 2 OS (Ubuntu and Windows), if you accidentally remove GRUB
file aswell, Windows would not be able to boot, but the data inside will remain intact.
1
The OP asks about "codes likerm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For examplecat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.
– john01dav
9 mins ago
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It doesn't affect the windows partition, because you're running it from your Ubuntu machine.
Picture it like this
/dev/sda1 ntfs-bootfile
/dev/sda2 ntfs-win
/dev/sda5 ext4-root --> (YOUR LOCATION NOW)
/dev/sda6 ext4-swap
If you run rm -rf
within your location, it would affect sda5
partition—in which your Ubuntu system reside. So it only affect Ubuntu.
Supposing you have grub boot loader to load the 2 OS (Ubuntu and Windows), if you accidentally remove GRUB
file aswell, Windows would not be able to boot, but the data inside will remain intact.
1
The OP asks about "codes likerm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For examplecat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.
– john01dav
9 mins ago
add a comment |
It doesn't affect the windows partition, because you're running it from your Ubuntu machine.
Picture it like this
/dev/sda1 ntfs-bootfile
/dev/sda2 ntfs-win
/dev/sda5 ext4-root --> (YOUR LOCATION NOW)
/dev/sda6 ext4-swap
If you run rm -rf
within your location, it would affect sda5
partition—in which your Ubuntu system reside. So it only affect Ubuntu.
Supposing you have grub boot loader to load the 2 OS (Ubuntu and Windows), if you accidentally remove GRUB
file aswell, Windows would not be able to boot, but the data inside will remain intact.
It doesn't affect the windows partition, because you're running it from your Ubuntu machine.
Picture it like this
/dev/sda1 ntfs-bootfile
/dev/sda2 ntfs-win
/dev/sda5 ext4-root --> (YOUR LOCATION NOW)
/dev/sda6 ext4-swap
If you run rm -rf
within your location, it would affect sda5
partition—in which your Ubuntu system reside. So it only affect Ubuntu.
Supposing you have grub boot loader to load the 2 OS (Ubuntu and Windows), if you accidentally remove GRUB
file aswell, Windows would not be able to boot, but the data inside will remain intact.
answered 3 hours ago
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The OP asks about "codes likerm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For examplecat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.
– john01dav
9 mins ago
add a comment |
1
The OP asks about "codes likerm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For examplecat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.
– john01dav
9 mins ago
1
1
The OP asks about "codes like
rm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For example cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.– john01dav
9 mins ago
The OP asks about "codes like
rm -rf
." To me, this means the various destructive commands that can be done on a Linux system. Some of these will cause problems on Windows. For example cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
will write zeroes to all of /dev/sda, thus deleting all data on that drive and possibly the entire computer. Of course, such things are less likely in practice but they need to be acknowledged for a complete answer. If truly secure isolation is needed to prevent Linux from causing problems on Windows (or visa-versa), the only sufficient method is a virtual machine of some sort.– john01dav
9 mins ago
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No it does not effect the windows partition.
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No it does not effect the windows partition.
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