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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE." -- Death
