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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Michael Hennebry [mailto:hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:04 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE." -- Death
