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> can you rollback a drop table

>_< , something similar happened to me when I did an rm -Rf * in the old pictures directory on my system ... Well ... It wasn't the old pictures directory, it was the backup directory with all pictures from my older phone !! To say that blood drained from my face would be an understatement, thankfully I was able to recover most of it.

The first thing I did after the recovery marathon was to alias rm so that it instead works by moving stuff to /tmp




In the late 90’s I wanted to try this Linux thing, so I followed a tutorial. First step:

    fdisk
Yes, that was my Windows partition going bye-bye.


So... success? ;)


:D task failed successfully !


I mean, he arguably did F the Disk, sounds correct


My boss was doing housecleaning in his PDP-11 (Unix v.6) account and did a "rm *" in the bin directory but OOPS it was the system bin.


inb4: /tmp partition gets full. Causing things to brake. :-)


No problem, just use rm ;)




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