worst Linux moment

[Madison Kelly]

Mine was just recently. I was setting up Samba and wanted to move the 
user's home directories to the new hard drive so I issued the move home 
directory while I was logged in as a regular user. It moved almost every 
file in my folder (a LOT of work stuff), decided that it couldn't move 
all of them, and deleted the destination folder without first restoring 
the old directory. I lost everything. Grrr!!

That was just bad coding, in my mind. How hard would it have been to see 
if a user was logged in an issue an error or at the very least leave the 
files where they were and issue an error or return the files to their 
source directory instead of just deleting them and dieing? I love Linux, 
it is my job and passion, but damn it was tried that day!

Madison

Noah John Gellner wrote:
> When I first started using Linux I had no background in Unix. I used to
> mount my windows 3.x partition to allow easy sharing of files. For some
> reason or other I decided to 'uninstall' Slackware and so su'ed, cd'ed
> to / and executed rm -rf *. My linux partition was only around 60 megs
> so I couldn't figure out why the command was taking so long to execute.
> I soon gained a deeper conceptual understanding of mounted filesystems.
> 
> The unnuanced suggestion on the deleting CVS ... thread made me recall
> this sorry tale.
> 


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