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

[arxaaron]

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
>
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