well if it blows away all the subdirs, i'll be ticked!!! your msg was a little late! i've already started the upgrade process.. i had to go to FC3, as opposed to FC2 as i couldn't find a torrent site for the FC2 isos... trying to get the isos from the various mirrors kept dying... so, we'll see what happens in a few minutes! -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Vian [mailto:jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:47 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!! On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:48 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi... > > 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.. > > -bruce > bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > You can reinstall, but that likely would have blown away /usr and /var with all subdirectories. do backups of what is remaining then reinstall and restore.
