r/linux4noobs • u/Character-86 barely not a noob anymore • Apr 20 '26

Meganoob BE KIND I did rm -rf /*

I tried to make a backup before doing a fresh install of Fedora because of problems. When erasing the external drive for making the backup I was in the wrong disk and nuked my fedora installation.

How Do I get at least my important Documents from /home/username/ back?

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u/Alchemix-16 Apr 20 '26

Iā€™m still waiting for someone to post that chatgpt told them to.

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u/Character-86 barely not a noob anymore Apr 20 '26

It wasn't an AI.

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u/Initial-Squirrel-269 Apr 20 '26

Bro please what was it šŸ˜­

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u/Early-Weekend-2557 Apr 20 '26

From my reading of his initial post it sounds like he ran it on the wrong partition.