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Something similar happened to me too. Now i know there is a big |
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difference between fsck and mkfs!! |
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I just finished installing my Gentoo 1.2 system and wanted to do a |
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backup. I was going to do a filesystem check before backuping. However, |
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i made a mistake and typed mkfs... wouff... whole system gone! :( |
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Louis-Philippe Brochu |
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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:32, Miguel S Filipe wrote: |
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> Jonathan Hunt wrote: |
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> | Congratulations to carpaski for his patch to newbin about 11 hours ago. |
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> | Unfortunately for me it came too late. I had a slightly older version of |
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> | gentoo portage. And I decide to have a look at it. An made the classic |
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> | mistake of running konqueror as root. And then due to sleep deprivation I |
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> | clicked on instead of right clicking on newbin. Effectively rm -rf / |
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> as root. |
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> | I'm still kicking myself. |
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> | Cheers, |
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> | Jonathan Hunt |
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> It happens at least once to any UNIX guy! |
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> wellcome to the club! :) |
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> (although I only "got" rm -rf /usr ..and it was typed.. also sleep |
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> deprivation and the wrong "tab" at the wrong time.) |
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> Cheers |
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> Miguel Sousa Filipe |
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