Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr
Hey all,
> By the way, is there any way of setting up an "undelete" for averting this
> kind of disaster? My Dad mentioned that Novell Netware has an undelete
> which basically puts off really deleting stuff for about 5 days --- unless
> it has to because of lack of space. This sounds like a _very_ useful
> feature.
Good lord, please NO. Having an "undelete," IMHO, leads to very
sloppy practices - better to learn to make backups of important
data - and to use the root account with care.
Basically, proposing an "undelete" feature is trying to automate
against stupidity - and that's a never-ending battle, trying to
protect the system from the worst-case scenario user.
There were some good suggestions, though - make an alias from
rm to 'rm -i' so that you always get prompted against making
massive mistakes. I've accidentally deleted a few projects in my
own home directory - but I make backups at least once a week and
burn them to CD. Even in the event of a catastrophic failure
of my hard drive, I only need to buy a new drive and copy my
home directory over.
Zonker
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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