Got chills down my spine initially but was a "good" scare .... the one which makes me carefull next time before any real damage is done. ๐๐
joeldebruijn
joined 2 years ago
Strange thing is, instead of moving folders (which isnt possible without root anyway) it looked like some of them got copied instead. Compared some folders from /boot/grub with the dump in my homefolder and they were the same files (number and names etc).
I took a deep breath (was not being root, how bad could it be?) and rebooted. Luckily everything seemed fine.
Grub letting me choose between Debian and Win11 (its a laptop from my employer) and both booted if choosen. Thanks for all the advice.
If the actual command was this .... mv /*/*/* ./ would moving stuff out of /boot or /dev folders make more sense?
Ah, keen eye, corrected the title and body text to match the screenshot. (From terminal history so I think thats what I actually ran)
Oh that worked, thnx!!
I only have a backup of my own personal files, not of the whole system. So my question about impact is about not having to do a fresh install.
Also I have dual boot and grub etc do scare me. ๐
I didnt work as root by the way ...
Ouch ... feel so stupid.
Ah, I was no root .... that should lower the impact ...
Yeah, I see, command wildcard asterix being markdown bold. Original command:
Yeah agree, its a work provided laptop, they allowed local admin etc but require Windows (at least that is) so just glad they gave me a HP laptop with 500GB SSD and for me certain freedom to configure dual boot etc