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I didn't realize that I was talking to the author of TestDisk and PhotoRec

Thanks so much for your great effort over the years in creating these data recovery tools!

Without them, I'd have no chance of recovering my data

Thanks and regards,

jdb2

A symbolic link isn't followed when deleting files.
$ mkdir test1 test2
$ ln -s ../test1 test2/test1
$ ls -d test1 test2/test1
test1 test2/test1
$ rm -rf test2
$ ls -d test1
test1 .


Thank you for your reply! :D In my case though, I had a "/media/mint/1c207119-3d71-4969-863a-6c077b73e35f ...

I recently set up an Intel NUC8i7BEH using ZFS root on Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, to replace the ancient 10+ year old Toshiba laptop that I had been using. After I had copied all my data over everything was fine on my new setup for months. One fateful day around this September 16th or so, at ...