I was working with shutil module. My file structure looked like this projects/backend/--3-5 repos-- . In one of the repo's views.py I used for d in destDirs: shutil.rmtree(d, ignore_errors=True) destDirs = "projects/backend/repo1/static/file1 After that my whole file system got deleted. After running the API that had that code my whole file system got deleted. Continue reading...