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Discussion on: I erroneously deletedy root partition. Now what?

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Zephyr Prusinski

Sorry friend, you've deleted everything on every partition you had mounted at the time you did that. The partitions still exist, but they don't contain any data, which is why GRUB Rescue isn't finding any filesystems.

also, this is really hard to do by accident on any modern linux distribution, sounds like someone tricked you into running rm -rf / --no-preserve-root which is very rude ._.

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Calin Baenen

That's not the command I used.
Also, this is Arch, so you'd be impressed.

DW, though, I fortunately managed to fix the issue.