From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 03:09:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3C95A8 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:09:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ye0-f180.google.com (mail-ye0-f180.google.com [209.85.213.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EDD6C0 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f180.google.com with SMTP id m14so202095yen.25 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:09:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Msu3vBTZK0KIoCOBL3WzXCzDmDsZqBvTH5RsHxxsn8w=; b=FwlQEdcYEYMaNHTV3mWmG/XCAdDNXQQt4j5NIlJ5y1fWZNS7cSKaXdeuq4EP1y7vGs H+2zKvE6120drBaiXY4w+eGB3hAJGQGfOlaI9up8s6PneuX2b6pojz2pKfp1JHTvf9lV Jt/yOeH0MiNGXl9aWPcbH+4FmLqcFzW6gdLmj/H02g7x69Djt5/+C8N55PJvsta0U6im y4idV1QW3q1aDZEtzpbJR8kZTlVBPgB1hDM4w+0dcCuVwfaGLOuTBdPVdqLINLhw9TCk afzTGChbTH4cNBxp1IJ0+jWrHJ9dveJfWC1TsJmKLKmYDcdKTSRpkZcB4fSS6qKrHrJl MgrA== X-Received: by 10.236.159.229 with SMTP id s65mr3468567yhk.159.1362020941804; Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:09:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s34sm11283613yhe.9.2013.02.27.19.09.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:09:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <512ECA4A.3030202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Questions @ FreeBSD" Subject: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:09:08 -0000 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