Stos Orgien » ATTENTION http://blog.stos.org Linker Jugo in der Schweiz. Srbin. SP Züri 11. Syndicom. Telco. Tochter. Linux. Philosphie. Politik. Wirtschaft. @stojano Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:10:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Don’t do “$ rm *something*” in Linux http://blog.stos.org/2008/01/dont-do-rm-something-in-linux/ http://blog.stos.org/2008/01/dont-do-rm-something-in-linux/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:59:45 +0000 sto http://www.stos.org/1/?p=89 just deleted all data on an external HD! 140GB gone. I only tried to delete a protected Folder on the HD and typed as root:

$ rm *something*

Don’t do this command as root!!! No attention message will be shown at all, it just does what you say your system to do. Well I was a little bit tired and had my mind on Mars. Fortunately, I followed all the backup recommendations in the past and so are 99,8% of the lost data on this HD again. Happy days!

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