An anonymous reader sends a report of a bug in Steam’s Linux client that will accidentally wipe all of a user’s files if they move their Steam folder. According to the bug report: I launched steam. It did not launch, it offered to let me browse, and still could not find it when I pointed to the new location. Steam crashed. I restarted it. It re-installed itself and everything looked great. Until I looked and saw that steam had apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under /media. Another user reported a similar problem — losing his home directory — and problems with the script were found: at some point, the Steam script sets $STEAMROOT as the directory containing all Steam’s data, then runs rm -rf “$STEAMROOT/”* later on. If Steam has been moved, $STEAMROOT returns as empty, resulting in rm -rf “/”* which causes the unexpected deletion. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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