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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

What happens if you erase it though? System32 moment?

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly not sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks something with D-Bus based on skimming the man pages, but I've never dug into it. Its not exposed in containers I run though, and I haven't run into anything that broke there as a result... 🤷️

[-] Sickday@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

You can check the man pages for this file, but in short it gets regenerated. It's used to determine whether this is the first boot or not.

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