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Last day of work before moving to the new job: I do some cleanup and rm -fr my home directory. Seconds passed. Minutes passed. I start to think about how can it
by riquito 13y ago
Last day of work before moving to the new job: I do some cleanup and rm -fr my home directory. Seconds passed. Minutes passed. I start to think about how can it take so long.
I list the content of my home directory trying to understand which folder was so big. Then I see it. A folder usually empty. Empty because I use it as generic mount point. A mount point that the day before was attached via sshfs to the production server...
I had a strange feeling, like if I was seeing myself from behind, something crumbling inside me. And at that moment someone start to ask "what's happened to <hostname>"?
I take my courage and I say "I know it"...
That was really hard. The worst day at work in years, and during the last day too. Luckily we had a good enough backup strategy and the damage was mostly solved in a couple hours.
There I realized how much of an idiot I was to have mounted the production server on my home and I grow a little.