What would happen if I were to delete all the files on my Mac Mini?

I was just wondering...Since i've owned my mac mini for a while now, overtime i've managed to have kept A LOT of files on my mac...
I don't want to delete individual files as that would take forever, but what would happen if I would delete every file and restart my mac? Just out of curiosity

Darkshade wrote:
but what would happen if I would delete every file and restart my mac? Just out of curiosity
It would fail to restart.

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