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

[JD]

He should just restore from his last backup.

On 02/11/2012 08:33 AM, arxaaron wrote:
> Excellent help! Thanks!
> 
> He mentioned something about how he was working with "encryption"
> on something when he made the rm -rf mistake.  In this context it makes
> sense as to what he erased.
> 
> Question now is if any of his home dir will be will be recoverable.
> It's possible that he blew away his encryption keys.
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> On 2012/02/11, at 06:08 , Pablo Ordonez wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>