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Sticking stuff in Lost+Found, and then deleting it (once I found a way via elevated rights/live CD), seemed to have resulted in all my directories and files (but not any hidden directories or files) being wiped from my Home directory.
Inbetween i got a load of error messages about the file system being full - because apparently although lost+found appears next to the Home directory on that partition (I have a separate one) if showing hidden files is checked, it actually resides on the linux file system partition? (and has reserved blocks there or something weird?)
Although there is a hint that the lost+found folder is special since you have to unlock permissions etc, there isn't really any warning sign that it's quite so unique and potentially damaging. Although it takes quite some stupidity to mess up as I did, it does undermine my trust in Linux, since people are supposed to have the freedom to mess around on it a bit, and shouldn't ever be a risk of losing all their personal files ever through the OS (unless manually editing configs or something or deleting without trash / confirming to do so), especially when on a separate partition.
appendum: it's just possible something else caused the home files deletion. I had just been running photorec from the command line to check for some photos I couldn't find any more - that's what put the stuff into the lost+found folder even though I terminated it 'cos I hadn't meant it to do that en masse). When I got the file system full errors I had also tried run bleachbit. Linux Mint 13 (with 16 update), ext 4, standard recent Intel type laptop. Also a separate Windows NTFS partition.
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Inbetween i got a load of error messages about the file system being full - because apparently although lost+found appears next to the Home directory on that partition (I have a separate one) if showing hidden files is checked, it actually resides on the linux file system partition? (and has reserved blocks there or something weird?)
Although there is a hint that the lost+found folder is special since you have to unlock permissions etc, there isn't really any warning sign that it's quite so unique and potentially damaging. Although it takes quite some stupidity to mess up as I did, it does undermine my trust in Linux, since people are supposed to have the freedom to mess around on it a bit, and shouldn't ever be a risk of losing all their personal files ever through the OS (unless manually editing configs or something or deleting without trash / confirming to do so), especially when on a separate partition.
appendum: it's just possible something else caused the home files deletion. I had just been running photorec from the command line to check for some photos I couldn't find any more - that's what put the stuff into the lost+found folder even though I terminated it 'cos I hadn't meant it to do that en masse). When I got the file system full errors I had also tried run bleachbit. Linux Mint 13 (with 16 update), ext 4, standard recent Intel type laptop. Also a separate Windows NTFS partition.
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