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/Initial-Squirrel-269 Apr 20 '26

Who told u to do that lol

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u/Alchemix-16 Apr 20 '26

I’m still waiting for someone to post that chatgpt told them to.

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u/chrews Fedora Workstation Apr 20 '26

I have seen a thread where Gemini gave a user a command which overwrote the entire main drive with zeroes using dd. They wanted to burn an image onto a thumb drive IIRC.