small issues with debian

Yesterday by mistake I have given the command rm -rf /home and oops ...... it deleted more than 3 gb of data before I can use ctrl+d.

I did not configured safe-rm and I have to bear the burnt of it. It took most of the day in trying to recover the data through various means. I failed to recover data. Any how the data is not that much interesting or important.

The deleted data was mostly before I installed safe-rm, thankfully it did not deleted the latest data.

I have decided to verify the data on every boot with fsck. Even though this is not necessary because in ext3 file system you need not verify the data. The data is constantly updated and check for errors. I have observed that data which was at least 3 weeks old and which has not modified was deleted rather than modified folders and files. I have concluded that if i force check the data on every boot, may be in future i might not able to see the same issue again.

I have installed xfce4 from Stable branch. I resisted to install from backports since I will be using only one desktop environment.

I have learnt a couple of things about safe-rm and how to use the shutdown command to force fsck on boot. I will write another post rather than posting here.

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