[Swlug] Mint difficulties

[Marcus Davage]

Glad to hear it's all sorted.

 I personally follow the 3-2-1 rule for backups:

3 copies
2 different types of media
1 off-site (or online, nowadays)

Marcus
(@spufidoo)

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, 21:51 DrBillBass via Swlug, <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks team for all your input into my Linux Mint problem.
>
> 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.
>
> The terminal cheat sheets sound interesting. Where can I find them?
>
> And thank you Daniel for your interesting input too. I didn't try that,
> but it's all good teaching.
>
> Many thanks to all of you!
>
> God bless,
> Bill 🙂
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2020 21:27, Keith Edmunds via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:27:51 +0000, swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk said:
>
> > sudo rm followed / etc/somefolder (with an accidental space
> > after the /) then that would erase the whole disc partition.
>
> How many have actually tried that?
>
> I did. Years ago I installed Linux (probably Debian) on an old pc, logged
> in as root and did the rm minus-rf slash return trick.
>
> Anyone want to speculate about what happened?
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