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Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don't have a VM handy to test, but without the "--no-preserve-root" flag it should give an error.
(Don't actually run that command on a machine you care about, I'm only 80% confident.)
Nope, it absolutely won't let you
could this be based on the distro?
or is it built into the kernel?
It was made default for rm command in 2006.