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

[Otto Haliburton]

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> 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.