[ale] Speaking of RM -RF SLASH...

[Pablo Ordonez]

Hi Aaron

here is the file-path

/home/.ecryptfs/ddddd/.private
ddddd = user_account
When you  install Ubuntu, it gives you the option to encrypt your home
directory. That is the place where your encrypted home directory is located.

running

du -sh /home/ddddd/
equal to
du  -sh /home/.ecryptfs/ddddd/.Private/



Pablo

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 10 February 2012 23:52, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just had a Young Friend (one of the teens in the youth
> > group I organize) who is delving into PC building and
> > Linux call me in a panic.
> >
> > Not sure exactly what he was trying to do or why yet,
> > but he says he issued a sudo rm -rf command on /private
> > and everything stopped working.  Not sure exactly what
> > he's blown away, but it probably included his shadow
> > file.  On my mac here, /private contains the actual etc
> > directory and /etc is just a soft link.
> >
> > We're going to work on salvaging his system tomorrow.
> > Any suggestions for maybe recovering reconstructing
> > the deleted directory? (no new writes have taken place...)
> > or recommendations on easy process for reinstalling to
> > a new hard disk and transferring system and user files?
> >
> > I think he was running Ubuntu 11.10.  Can anybody
> > give me a listing of what Ubuntu puts in /private these
> > days?
>
> There is no /private on Ubuntu.
>
> Jeremy Bicha
>
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