[gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Jonathan Hunt]

Congratulations to carpaski for his patch to newbin about 11 hours ago. 
Unfortunately for me it came too late. I had a slightly older version of 
gentoo portage. And I decide to have a look at it. An made the classic 
mistake of running konqueror as root. And then due to sleep deprivation I 
clicked on instead of right clicking on newbin. Effectively rm -rf / as root. 
I'm still kicking myself.

Cheers,
Jonathan Hunt
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Miguel S Filipe]

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Jonathan Hunt wrote:
| Congratulations to carpaski for his patch to newbin about 11 hours ago.
| Unfortunately for me it came too late. I had a slightly older version of
| gentoo portage. And I decide to have a look at it. An made the classic
| mistake of running konqueror as root. And then due to sleep deprivation I
| clicked on instead of right clicking on newbin. Effectively rm -rf /
as root.
| I'm still kicking myself.
|
| Cheers,
| Jonathan Hunt

It happens at least once to any UNIX guy!
wellcome to the club! :)

(although I only "got" rm -rf /usr ..and it was typed.. also sleep
deprivation and the wrong "tab" at the wrong time.)

Cheers
Miguel Sousa Filipe
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Louis-Philippe Brochu]

Something similar happened to me too. Now i know there is a big
difference between fsck and mkfs!!

I just finished installing my Gentoo 1.2 system and wanted to do a
backup. I was going to do a filesystem check before backuping. However,
i made a mistake and typed mkfs... wouff... whole system gone! :(


--
Louis-Philippe Brochu

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:32, Miguel S Filipe wrote:
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> Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> | Congratulations to carpaski for his patch to newbin about 11 hours ago.
> | Unfortunately for me it came too late. I had a slightly older version of
> | gentoo portage. And I decide to have a look at it. An made the classic
> | mistake of running konqueror as root. And then due to sleep deprivation I
> | clicked on instead of right clicking on newbin. Effectively rm -rf /
> as root.
> | I'm still kicking myself.
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Jonathan Hunt
> 
> It happens at least once to any UNIX guy!
> wellcome to the club! :)
> 
> (although I only "got" rm -rf /usr ..and it was typed.. also sleep
> deprivation and the wrong "tab" at the wrong time.)
> 
> Cheers
> Miguel Sousa Filipe
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Emiel Kollof]

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On Friday 25 October 2002 23:32, Miguel S Filipe wrote:
[deleting your system snipped]

> It happens at least once to any UNIX guy!
> wellcome to the club! :)

Indeed... Happened to me too once. Heck, and they told me there would be 
no hazing! ;-)

> (although I only "got" rm -rf /usr ..and it was typed.. also sleep
> deprivation and the wrong "tab" at the wrong time.)

Try "rm -rf *" while being in /etc, which happened to me once. Very 
interesting experience while my computer told me "Who are you? Go away" 
every time ;P

Cheers,
Emiel
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die zich vermand hebben. 
  -- Freek de Jonge 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Eric Noack]

Oh yeah <g>. i was in /tmp and wanted to delete everything there

so i did
rm -rf *

just so see that all "hidden" dirs and files in there still where there ;-(

so i thought i was extremely! intelligent and typed

rm -rf .*

to delete all "hidden" files and dirs, starting with a dot

yeah all of them!

like . and .. for example

now what is .. of /tmp ? guess it?

yeah right! /

and the stupidity award 2002 again goes to

Corvus V Corax

Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Spider]

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> so i thought i was extremely! intelligent and typed
> 
> rm -rf .*
> 


This happened to me after migrating my /home (safely backed up .. yeah)
to another system where the UID were a bit different...
ok, chmod spider -R * ...  Got them.. but not my .ssh and other "vital"
dirs... so.. chmod spider -R .*
 *chunka chunka chunka chunka*


I was doing "restore" work for a long time once I found out what files I
had chown'ed ...  very fun.  But, You learn from it..  I doubt I'll ever
do that again ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Too little, too late.

[Jean-Michel Smith]

On Friday 25 October 2002 06:36 pm, Eric Noack wrote:
> Oh yeah <g>. i was in /tmp and wanted to delete everything there
>
> so i did
> rm -rf *
>
> just so see that all "hidden" dirs and files in there still where there ;-(
>
> so i thought i was extremely! intelligent and typed
>
> rm -rf .*
>
> to delete all "hidden" files and dirs, starting with a dot
>
> yeah all of them!
>
> like . and .. for example

That exact mistake bit me on a old Sun OS 4.x box a few years ago ... cost me 
a weekend to recover that system (it was a production box ... visions of my 
young career, all of 3 weeks old, dying a quick death danced through my 
aching head).

It is definitely a right of passage ... :-)

I *think* the GNU file utilities have fixed that behavior (though I'd try it 
in a sandbox to make sure), so that 'rm .*' does not try to delete . or .. 
anymore, but of course if you get used to that, then transition to a non-GNU 
UNIX syste ...

Jean.