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I have wine installed on my system, although I never ever use it for anything, but in the past I did and I installed some things and now it doesn't even work well cause the wine "hard drive" located at ~/.wine/drive_c is really sloppy and ugly and I can't install many things because I also abused wine tricks a lot.
Anyway, what I want to do is just delete the drive completely, it has some big programs installed on it, and its just taking up space on my data partition where I don't want to have applications installed anyway.
However, I looked around to make sure I wouldn't be deleting anything important, and I noticed that there are some symlinks to ~/Documents and ~/Videos and even a symlink to ~/ in there.
So, my question is, if I issue the command "rm -r ~/.wine/drive_c" is rm going to recursively look in those symlinks and delete everything in ~/Documents and ~/ (all my important files)? Obviously that would be a bad thing.
I would just expect it to remove the symlinks only, but I remember reading something in the busybox configuration that there was a busybox option that would allow rm to behave that way (remove symlinks) but that it would break some standard.
I am not using busybox on my system, I am using the distro provided GNU coreutils, so I am a little scared about what might happen.
Also, remember that you can have several distinct WINEPREFIX locations on your system and all of them will contain an independent (from the others) "C:" drive.
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