Re: /usr became a normal file. is this fixable?
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:16:41 -0500
Adam Atkinson wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
>>Paul Colquhoun <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Have fun assigning the correct names to all the files from lost+found.
>>
>>He has the list - and /usr only contains directories. He can recognize
>>them via THEIR contents. bin contains executables, lib contains
>>libraries, etc.
>
>
> Yeah. With /usr/bin or something it would be much worse.
Well at some point you do
rm /usr
mkdir /usr
and then restore the /usr directory from backup.
Now if /bin (where the backup-recovery software is) got zapped, I would just
reinstall the OS and restore everything from backup.
>
>
>>This really isn't a big deal
>
>
> Well, I don' t know whether that was my only problem, of course. It
> seems the disk can't be too badly off, or the re-partition/reinstall
> would have
> failed, I expect.
>
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