GNOME hangs

Richard England rengland at europa.com
Sun Aug 6 16:03:21 UTC 2006


Eric Donkersloot wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:49 -0400, Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
>   
>> .... I was advised to do something
>> which turned out to be disastrous so NEVER EVER issue the following from
>> a root shell
>>
>> rm -rf $Home/*
>>     
>
> Are you sure you executed the command above ? This would mean you
> deleted the /root directory and all its contents. Are you sure you
> didn't delete your personal home dir and everything in it ?
> Anyway, I guess you've learned your lesson, don't just copy and execute
> commands (especially rm commands) from a root shell.
>
>   
>> As I found to my bitter cost, this ERASED EVERYTHING including my data
>> files on my USB memory stick and these were my day-to-day operating
>> needs such as : e-mail addresses, snail-mail addresses and phone numbers
>> etc., Firefox bookmarks, financial records and so on. I was DEVASTATED
>> to say the least. Now, following a complete re-install of FC5 I'm glad
>> to say I'm back in business and slowly recovering about 90% of my data
>> from old files saved to Zip disk.
>>
>> Croombe Pensom
>>
>>
>>     
I think I would have learned to stay far away from the individual who 
gave me the recommendation to use  rm -rf $HOME/*

He may have thought it was a joke but people like that should not be 
allowed to frequent public gatherings or communicate with anyone without 
adult supervision.  They are twisted, immature individuals.

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