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

[arxaaron]

On 2012/02/11, at 01:00 , Jeremy Bicha 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

Thanks for the confirmation, Jeremy!   That was my
recollection, but I don't have the latest Ubuntu installation
here.  I think Pablo honed in on what "private" directory
we would be talking about now.

peace
aaron