ext2/ext3 on Mac OS X

Install MacFUSE and fuse-ext2 to be able to read and possibly write to ext2/ext3 file systems connected to OS X.

rm -r the wrong place

If you read this, it is probably already too late, but remember this command.
It is very important not to write anything to the disk. Do not even close a program before you have re-mounted the system.
This re-mounts /home as read-only:

:~$ sudo mount -o remount,ro /home

If you have X running, now is the time to kill [...]