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

bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 23 00:56:21 UTC 2005


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 at charter.net]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:47 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; 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 at earthlink.net
>
>

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.





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