>playing around in vim
>friend sees
>impressed by the keyboard mashing
>friend wants me to teach how Linux works
>open terminal
>show her basic commands
>going well. she picks it up petty quickly
>move onto hierarchy
>cd /
>tell her this is the root directory. everything is here
>Don't worry about breaking anything though. it won't let you because you don't have permissions
>try rm *. nothing will happen unless without sudo
>can't remove because it's directory
>oh. try rm -rf *
>permission denied
>that time it worked because -rf deletes recursi-
>check home folder. half of everything missing
>FUCK
>desperately googling for an undo command when there is none
>she's just laughing
>mfw
>>55485092
Are you retarded?
You're thinking of rm -rf /
Which needs sudo because you're deleting the root partition/folders
rm doesn't need any extra permissions on regular files that your user is allowed to access like your own home directory.
Otherwise shit like your file manager wouldn't be able to delete files.
Literally your own fault for being an idiot
lmao
>>55485189
no shit lol
>>55485092
Lemme guess, you're gonna blame the OS for your being a mongoloid
>>55485346
nah I'm already in love with Linux. I'm just retarded and obviously still green enough to try something that stupid. luckily I've broken my computer enough times that this isn't a major set back. Unfortunately I'll never be asked for advice again though.
>>55485485
Thank the lord you'll never be asked for advice again.
>>55485092
>tfw girl becomes 1337 hacker and constantly makes fun of you by asking "hey anon remember that time you deleted half your home directory?"
cucked again
>>55485092
>>desperately googling for an undo command when there is nonecp -rv /backup/home/latest /home/
yawn
>>55485576
>implying I have a backup
>>55485092
That'll teach you for trying to show off.
You need to be absolutely sure what you're doing when you play around with rm and *. She learned a valuable lesaon from your stupidity.
>>55485576
do you think someone going on and doing a rm -rf * would be the candidate for backups
you've just out-retarded OP
I bet if other linuxtards on this board had female friends they would fuck up just as badly.
>op doesn't know about sudo undo
There are tools for recovering recently-deleted stuff. The data is still on your hard drive until something overwrites it. I don't remember the tools though.
>>55486138
He could have used locate
>>55485767
>>55485931
It takes like 5 seconds to enable automatic read-only snapshots in a modern FS like btrfs or zfs
what is your excuse?
>>55486138
windows doesn't store filenames in the files
>>55485092
photorec
>>55486316
how to do?
>>55486997
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=btrfs%20snapshot%20cronjob
>>55487160
>https://encrypted.google.com
Wait, what?
>>55486138
find / -name 'hackers.mp4'
>>55487184
I just did a google search using duckduckgo and that's the URL it gave me
>>55487184
it's literally just google except with cleaner URL's and less referer information
>>55485547
I laughed so hard at this I had to go find a pillow for extra back support.
>>55485092
>>55486981
This. Power off immediatly the PC to prevent data overwriting, then boot up a Linux (inb4 interjection) live and run photorec. The Arch live for example has the software already installed. Get an external HDD to place the recovered files.
Also
>trying to hook up with muh Looning
See pic related
>>55485092
Nothing was deleted, just masked for writing in the FS. Easy as fuck to recover from..
>>55487907
Not surprised that a vim babby didn't know this. Any Emacs user could recover from it in 60 s while rolling a spliff with their left hand
>>55485576
If his backup Directory was mounted he would have deleted that as well...
>>55488129
>what is a read-only snapshot and why is it called read-only?
>>55488129
>mounted, writable directory
>"backup"
>>55488545
>>55488129
he's just never heard of a snapshotting filesystem before
>>55485092
Fucking idiot
>>55485092
have to use sudo i bet youre on ubunoob
>>55485092
She just made you her bitch
