Protecting Dualbooting Windows from dangerous code (like rm -rf)





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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?










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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?







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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.






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          • 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.

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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.






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            • 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.

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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.






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            • 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.

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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.






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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.







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            • 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
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            • 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
              5 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
            5 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
            5 mins ago















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