RE: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

From: bruce (bedouglas_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 04/22/05

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    To: "'Michael Hennebry'" <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>, "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@redhat.com>, "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:59:11 -0700

    ok...

    i have the rescue cd. i can see the /usr/bin on the rescue cd, and i can
    copy it to the new '/usr/bin' on the system where i did the 'rm -rf...'.

    my question, is once i do this, how/what do i need to do to get back the
    rest of the system... when i compare the '/usr/bin' on a FC3 resuce cd, with
    the FC3 '/usr/bin' dir, i see a great deal of difference in the number of
    files.

    or should i just get the FC2 iso cds and do a reinstall. keep in mind that
    i've made a lot of chanegs, new rpms, updates, etc... and i'd rather not
    blow those away.

    i have an ext3 file system.

    -bruce
    bedouglas@earthlink.net

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Michael Hennebry [mailto:hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu]
    Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:04 AM
    To: bedouglas@earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

    On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, bruce wrote:
    > i stupidly just did a 'rm -rf /*r' and i understand that there's no way to
    > redo/undo this command.. it seems to have blown away my /usr/bin dir..
    > although, for all i know, i may have screwed up a lot more...
    >
    > my question, is there someway that i can reinstall the /usr/bin dir.. or
    am
    > i pretty much f*ed up. i have fedora core 2.
    >
    > this is a critical system that i was putting alot of things on.. i haven't
    > done anything else to the box after my mistake..

    Whatever else you do, do backups now. Apparently you didn't before.
    The most straight-forward thing to do is to reinstall and then copy
    data from the backups.
    As others have noted, if your data is in a partition separate from
    /usr and /var, you should be able to do a reinstall without destroying
    your data. Back up anyway.

    If you data are among the victims and were not backed up,
    you have a problem. You will need to try undeletion.
    Check the result carefully.
    Back it up. Proceed as before.

    BTW /var might still there, but that doesn't mean that it is intact. 

    -- 
Mike   hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES.  *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE."  --  Death



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