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

Lam, Eric Eric.Lam at fmr.com
Fri Apr 22 00:31:28 UTC 2005


Can you still mount a CD ? Does vold still running ? The ftp binary can
be found on CD ? I guess you can not do NFS mount ? Is there any command
in /sbin and /bin that you can use to copy some files, or mount nfs file
systems ? Sorry I am not at the system, just thinking from my head.

-----Original Message-----
From: bruce [mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:24 PM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'; Lam, Eric
Subject: RE: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!


eric...

not to be down, but just how would i copy anything to the screwed up
server, when the ssh/rcp/etc.. apps all appear to have resided in the
/usr/bin dir....

i was hopeful that using the recover cd might provide a solution....

but it seems that no one has a solution, other than reinstall... which
really screws me up!

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Lam, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:11 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net
Cc: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!


If I were you, I would copy (by tar or cpio) the files from another
system that has same kernel level. What else you got to loss now ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Haliburton [mailto:ottohaliburton at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:48 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!




> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of bruce
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:15 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!
> 
> 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. (i've asked th
question on
> the FC2 list, and they leep telling me that i need to do a complete
> reinstall) i thought there was a way to more or less recreate the
indoe,
> or
> that there was some way that you can recover if you haven't done
anything
> with the drive since the 'rm -rf'... i've seen some
postings/information
> on
> google that kind of discuss this. but i need more understanding...
> 
> 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 at earthlink.net
> 
> 
There are some very expensive disk recover companies out there so if it
is
very important to you I would suggest you get in touch with them they
will
do a track by track recover of data from the disk.  I don't know what
filesystem they support but you can probably google for disk recovery
and
get the info.  But I can tell you they are very very expensive.


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