How do you fix sudo "rm -rf /*"??

**nevets04** · October 21st, 2009

Originally Posted by stinger30au

just the names of their web sites alone is enough for me not to trust them

lol. Yeah. Ive been with hackforums for about 2 years now. and Ive known the guy for about a year. So I just didnt see it coming.

**Niko Johnson** · October 21st, 2009

The hack fourms in general are helpful most of the time, but some people are just not good hackers... we battle the blackhat's everyday! CEH (certified ethical hacker)

**nevets04** · October 21st, 2009

Reburning Worked and My computer works again!

Thanks everyone! I think I found my new forum

**yeats** · October 21st, 2009

He was helping me via IRC, Which I'm now banned from

Sounds like good riddance to me

does ubuntuforums have an IRC?

Yep: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat

**Niko Johnson** · October 21st, 2009

Glade to hear that worked out for you... when in doubt GOOGLE IT!!

**Psyphre** · October 23rd, 2009

Originally Posted by theozzlives

Try using the gparted live CD and put it on a flash drive with unetbootin. Delete all partitions and start from scratch. NEVER use that command again, geeze a little common sence.

He did say he was new, its not his fault he wasn't born with the knowledge of linux commands.

**jrrader** · October 23rd, 2009

By definition he was following common sense. Someone he thought he could trust was helping him and told him to do something so he did it. "rm -rf /*" looks like jibberish to most people. If I told my wife to click the icon with the squinty eye ( >_< ) and type "sudo rm -rf /*" she wouldn't think anything of it.

Maybe learn some basic unix commands - you'll avoid this kind of trouble in the future and you can be like the girl from Jurassic Park.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/