Popped POP OS :) | TheaterFire

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Sirius707@reddit

There's a reason why, the first time you use sudo on many systems, there's a message containing the quote "with great power comes great responsibility".

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Equivalent_Law_6311@reddit

Yeah, I wanted to delete a timeshift folder that refused to delete, so rm -rf some_dir but forget to add the folder name, then watched several GB of folders vanish until I stopped it.

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Mr_Cheese_Lover@reddit

rm -rf is like having access to weapons of mass destruction

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allthatsmasomenos@reddit

Ubuntu doesnt, it only says are you sure??

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privinci@reddit

I remember fedora show that message, ubuntu warning is different

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shogun77777777@reddit

I accidentally deleted everything out of my NAS last week with one command, join the party!

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Mr_Cheese_Lover@reddit

Ever seen that video of the guy with the cowboy hat, pulls out his pistol and it discharges into his leg? Yeah, bet it felt like that

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daemonpenguin@reddit

Ouch, this is one of those times when you really wish you'd tested with a dry run before using the "-delete" flag.

I am curious though, why you'd do this in the root directory. Wouldn't removing the Steam package and deleting your ~/.steam directory do the trick?

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I was initially having a bit of an issue with getting steam to work, so I tried installing it multiple times with multiple different methods. I wanted to make sure I cleared absolutely everything before I did what I was hoping would be my last reinstall. It seems I got my wish, not in the way I intended though.

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ManlySyrup@reddit

If you were on Pop_OS, the only option you should ever consider is the official one from Steam's website. There's an official .deb installer on their website that Pop_OS is compatible with. Easiest thing in the world.

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Mr_Cheese_Lover@reddit

Just get the flatpak its even easier

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KnowZeroX@reddit

This is what things like timeshift are for. You can restore the os to what it was before you ran all the funky stuff without running a blind delete everything.

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gentisle@reddit

SystemRescueCD should be able to help you get the images back. If you can get it to boot.

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scannerthegreat@reddit

steam should be called something else on linux because this happens also hope you didnt have anythin important there

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choodleforreal@reddit

Didn't Linus do something similar? Why does PopOS have this problem so often?

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webmdotpng@reddit

No. Linus tried to install Steam from APT, then the terminal returns a warning that the installation of Steam could uninstall everything (an error between 64-bit and 32-bits packages), including GNOME. He still had a functional system, but without a GUI.

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choodleforreal@reddit

Oh wow I'm suprised he would ignore a warning like that lol

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webmdotpng@reddit

He ignores the whole message.

In the video, it seems to ignore the entire message that the terminal returns and only focuses on the last line which ends in something similar to “if you understand, type: “Yes, do as I say“”. He typed it and the rest is history.

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Natjoe64@reddit

Pop os is not the best distro, if your new, I would recommend ether stock fedora or bazzite linux if you are using nvidia graphics. Ubuntu and ubuntu adjacent stuff is not the best place to start

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mmstick@reddit

Fedora and Bazzite aren't going to stop you from deleting files in a terminal.

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gsstratton@reddit

Bazzite and other immutables will make it much less prone to any catastrophic user error.

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webmdotpng@reddit

In fact, you still could delete everything in /var.

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Natjoe64@reddit

Thats true, but also they just make everything phenomenally easier

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stevorkz@reddit

That’s peculiar. I find pop os to be quite user friendly. In fact if I was asked by someone to recommend a distro to start/learn from, or better yet someone who is afraid of the terminal, I would say pop or mint.

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DuePresent7313@reddit

I am almost positive Linus Tech Tips made a very similar mistake. Steam on POP OS is something completely different from Valve's Steam. If anyone knows why lmk, I don't use POP.

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Alarming_Airport_613@reddit

Maseltov!

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McNastyIII@reddit

Sounds like a memorable/exciting learning experience

I hope you didn't lose anything serious

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Veiled_Wisp@reddit (OP)

Nothing major. Just about 10 downloaded images or so. I'm also taking this as a lesson on what to definitely not do again.

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ElvisVan007@reddit

don't stop there, here's the chance for you to test it even further to see if you can recover a deleted instance, as long as you don't overwrite the sector range (where the os used to be) with new data, there's ways to recover the partition

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draeath@reddit

It's always a good idea to run it without -delete first, to confirm it's matching what you expect.

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lurker-157835@reddit

Same as with SQL. You always SELECT to test out your clause before you DELETE.

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KilnHeroics@reddit

Lol. Way to miss foreign keys when transactions exist.......

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NatoBoram@reddit

ON DELETE CASCADE

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KilnHeroics@reddit

you modify or just have this set?

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omenosdev@reddit

Additionally you can start your command with your shell's comment character to prevent accidental execution. Or ensure it ends with \ which allows for one accidental return press. You can ^C to escape disaster (and/or retain edits to a command you were making without rewriting its history).

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Visible_Bake_5792@reddit

Well, we all learn by doing mistakes.

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agent484a@reddit

Honestly, this is one of the reasons I went to atomic Linux (Fedora Silverblue in my case)

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SnooCookies1995@reddit

I'm using bluefin!

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agent484a@reddit

I lied, I actually am too but I figured more people would have heard of Silverblue. :)

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headedbranch225@reddit

Why lie though, you can just say for example

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agent484a@reddit

Lying is fun.

Or is it?

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Natjoe64@reddit

run bazzite on my gaming pc/rog ally and its so much better than windows

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redddcrow@reddit

1) check the output of find first.
2) if it makes sense, then you can add the -delete flag :)
IMO find should return nothing if the command is not explicitly being told what to find:
"find /" outputs all the files on disk, I think that's an incorrect behaviour.

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jacobgkau@reddit

I use find . | grep -i ... to search for files in the current directory (recursively) all the time. The . is telling it to find files in or below the current directory. The / in find / is telling it to find files in or below the root of the filesystem. So it's not as if you haven't given it any parameters at all.

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redddcrow@reddit

let's agree to disagree on that one. in "find ." the . is the location, but what to search for is not specified.

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jacobgkau@reddit

Yeah, your opinion just isn't how it works, lol.

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Wooden-Opposite3557@reddit

It seems something like this could have helped you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkErsc4CA24

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NovaStorm93@reddit

the :3 in this post is environmental storytelling

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E-werd@reddit

This is why I don't create big long command chains and will just keep them in small steps. Always keep the "Are you sure?" prompts. It takes longer, but saves me from headaches. If I fuck up, it's going to cost me a LOT more time.

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Angar_var2@reddit

Why did you need ignore-readdir_race?

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Veiled_Wisp@reddit (OP)

I wanted to leave no stones unturned and search through files that would normally be permission blocked in case anything was in there. That seems to have been a major mistake.

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freenullptr@reddit

ignore_readdir_race doesn't do that, all it does is avoid printing an error message for files that have disappeared inbetween their name being read from a directory and find making an attempt at deleting them.

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akanezzx@reddit

thats why guys id rather not mess with -delete flags!

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_Sgt-Pepper_@reddit

Never run any deletion operations from or for the / directory
Never do this as root user
Use btrfs

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netsx@reddit

So you were logged in as "root" (no sudo)?

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KlePu@reddit

Without root permissions that'll still delete pretty much everything under /home/$USER, typically the data you care about most \^\^

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derixithy@reddit

I did a chmod 0755 ./* But my keyboard isn't great and I was in a hurry. So I didn't type the . Ssh wouldnt work anymore docker did strange things, but after a reboot and changing ssh permissions in /etc everything works again. But I probably should still do a reinstall

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