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I never deleted my root system with rm but I did dd go sda instead of sdb and ended up losing my data.
Holy shit, me too. 6TiB poof
With great power comes great responsibility. Do check twice what you write.
Jokes aside, it has happened to almost everyone... and then you learn to QUADRUPLE CHECK dd commands.
I haven't accidentally deleted a bunch of data yet (which, considering 99% of my interaction with Linux is when I'm SSH'd into a user's server, I am very paranoid about not doing), but I have run fsck on a volume without mounting the read/write flashcache with dirty blocks on it first.
Oops.
It will happen to you sooner or later 😂... we're all dead on a long enough time scale 🤷 😂.
or just don't attach any drives except the main one to your system. ever.
That's a very bleak future... at least for me.
I did, and it was fast. I was a complete noob, so I thought rm -rf /* would delete everything in the current folder. I hit Ctrl + C, but it was too late. Took a few seconds to wipe out the whole system.