Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com> To: "Questions @ FreeBSD" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files Message-ID: <512ECA4A.3030202@gmail.com>
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Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. Here is what happened. I was mounting a thumb drive and I was wanting to 'rm -rf' what was on it (it doesn't matter if I was root or not, I gave the directories I mount to in /mnt user:usergroup permissions so it would have happened regardless). Because I was having a conversation with my wife, balancing my laptop, and trying to do this, I deleted the contents of /mnt/business (important business documents, journaled partition) and /mnt/storage (4GB irreplaceable photos, all my music (all replaceable once I get my super-multi-format (dvd+/-/cd/rw), and other various files (sermons, notes on sermons, bible study notes, and more), irreplaceable videos and more all gone (in total about 63GiB of files). Is there any way to retrieve any of them? I've not wrote any data to either partition since the accidental deletion. None of my other filesystems (/ and /usr/local/home/*) were affected by my stupidity. -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt
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