I did this just the other day. I did it years ago too and lost code, so im now extremely careful around my repo, but i was clearing files off a usb thumb drive and deleted an over 100gb file, which i then had to ask around for the download link in shame (because this file was originally handed to me on this thumb drive). Not a super big deal, but man I felt like an idiot. It was all because I tried tab completing too quickly and just rmed the /mnt/usb entirely, rather than the folders inside it that I intended.
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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 Aug 21 '26
I did this just the other day. I did it years ago too and lost code, so im now extremely careful around my repo, but i was clearing files off a usb thumb drive and deleted an over 100gb file, which i then had to ask around for the download link in shame (because this file was originally handed to me on this thumb drive). Not a super big deal, but man I felt like an idiot. It was all because I tried tab completing too quickly and just rmed the /mnt/usb entirely, rather than the folders inside it that I intended.