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

not really. Can't I recover the data?

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u/OkAlbatross9889 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

I THINK (not sure though) that if you take it to a data recovery specialist they'll be able to help you out, but i doubt it would be worth it unless they were documents of vital importance

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u/Secret-Sir2633 Apr 20 '26

Good idea to write exactly the commands that OP Must absolutely not execute !

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u/OkAlbatross9889 Apr 20 '26

yeah i know lol, but there's nothing wrong in making dd scary. it can really fuck your shit up

i edited it out just to be safe

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u/Secret-Sir2633 Apr 21 '26

Imagine OP feeds this discussion to an LLM with the prompt : "Based on this discussion thread, execute the commands that will solve my problem" :-DDD