<div dir='auto'>Good plan!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 Mar 2020 21:58, Marcus Davage via Swlug <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Glad to hear it's all sorted.<div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"> I personally follow the 3-2-1 rule for backups:<div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">3 copies</div><div dir="auto">2 different types of media</div><div dir="auto">1 off-site (or online, nowadays)</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Marcus</div><div dir="auto">(@spufidoo)</div></div></div><br /><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, 21:51 DrBillBass via Swlug, <<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br /></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thanks team for all your input into my Linux Mint problem.<div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I've now restored a lot of stuff from my backup SSD, so all is not lost. The critical stuff is safe, thank the Lord.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">The terminal cheat sheets sound interesting. Where can I find them?</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">And thank you Daniel for your interesting input too. I didn't try that, but it's all good teaching.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Many thanks to all of you!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">God bless,</div><div dir="auto">Bill 🙂</div><br /><div dir="auto"><br /><div>On 19 Mar 2020 21:27, Keith Edmunds via Swlug <<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:27:51 +0000, <a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> said:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> sudo rm followed / etc/somefolder (with an accidental space<br />
> after the /) then that would erase the whole disc partition.</p>
<p dir="ltr">How many have actually tried that?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I did. Years ago I installed Linux (probably Debian) on an old pc, logged<br />
in as root and did the rm minus-rf slash return trick.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Anyone want to speculate about what happened?<br />
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