It will also wipe out documents on USB connected drives, ouch.
The main problem if you are running Steam on Linux is to be careful of their program.
It would be wise, not to connect to any local external hard drives while youre running Steam.
If anyone else has experienced this or has more information, they should email[email protected].
The bug is acting like due to a line in theSteam.shBash script:
rm -rf $STEAMROOT/*.
This rm command tells the computer to remove theSTEAMROOTdirectory and all its sub-directories (folders).
The saving grace for Linux users is that one can only erase files they have write permissions over.
Ironically, the instruction at issue is preceded by a comment from the developer: # Scary!.
source: www.techworm.net
