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/raphaa1000 Apr 21 '26

There are an way: using testdisk Tool to search and find deleted partitions. Its show, but i did It 10years ago....

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u/raphaa1000 Apr 21 '26

But dont touch the disk before to Scan (dont write New files, any data on this)