This should be a general question. This Q sprung my mind yesterday late evening because I accidentally deleted files from another partition rather than from the partition I was intending to do. I'm working on Ubuntu 13.04. From launcher I clicked on the '2nd from top' icon (named files). There I clicked on 2 GB flash drive and it got mounted. I was intending to delete all the files here. Before that I was doing some other tasks on other windows. Then I returned back on the 'Files' window. Rather than clicking on the 2 GB flash drive I clicked on the 40 GB drive which was directly above the flash drive. This 40 GB was of Windows 7. Then I pressed 'ctrl-a' & 'shift-del'. Before this mistake stroked my mind, it had already deleted 7 GB of data (luckily other 33 GB was secure).Now, I'm very much concerned of how to secure my partitions/files & everything on my laptop. The solution should include the below point:On the files window, all partitions are listed & its only a matter of clicking on it to mount it. It should be that whenever it is clicked it should mount automatically on read only mode so that no accidental deletion occurs.I expect a general solution for securing my laptop.One thing I would like to add that I have taken backup of my Ubuntu partitions (/, /boot & /home) & so my Ubuntu data are safe but I can't take for all partitions because of lack of space.
How to make my laptop safe & secure from any accidents like deleting by mistake?
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