I am an idiot.

Plan: Reinstall my Linux box, which contains some stuff I've been working on for weeks.

What do I do? I make nice backups of all my work, stick them into 3 .tgz files.

What do I then do? Forget to copy them *off* the disk and onto a network share, then proceed to recreate the file system with the install disk...


Needless to say, I had to do some hasty research into file recovery, and I now have R-Linux scanning the disk, oops.