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@rookiemaverick The next thing I did was bask in the freedom of having 250 GB free and install Mint over all the space my OSs used to take. Everything from before was stone cold dead.
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@skonteam It was mostly games, old schoolwork I was never going to look at, and code written so badly that it should never see the light of day again. Nothing was anything I needed, just stuff I'd look at and cringe. It was so long ago I doubt anything I had hasn't been overwritten.
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@kshep92 Nah. I got pretty familiar with writing backup scripts afterwards though. I see it as trading my tired, hungover insights into the theory I was learning for a practical appreciation of bash and backups.
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@MaxMayo well you're pretty calm. I guess nothing disturbs your Zen, huh?
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
It's march, I'm in my final year of university. The physics/robotics simulator I need for my major project keeps running into problems on my laptop running Ubuntu, and my supervisor suggests installing Mint as it works fine on that.
I backup what's important across a 4GB and a 16GB memory stick. All I have to do now is boot from the mint installation disk and install from there. But no, I felt dangerous. I was about to kill anything I had, so why not `sudo rm -rf /*` ? After a couple seconds it was done. I turned it off, then back on. I wanted to move my backups to windows which I was dual booting alongside Ubuntu.
No OS found. WHAT. Called my dad, asked if what I thought happened was true, and learnt that the root directory contains ALL files and folders, even those on other partitions. Gone was the past 2 1/2 years of uni work and notes not on the uni computers and the 100GB+ other stuff on there.
At least my current stuff was backed up.
TL;DR : sudo rm -rf /* because I'm installing another Linux distro. Destroys windows too and 2 1/2 years of uni work.
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