Re: removed root directory files

["Abraham Chaffin" <abrahamchaffin@gmail.com>]

I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*"  I was root when I executed this command.
Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and was really just a backup so nothing was lost.
Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless.

Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *" from now on.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, George Borisov <gb.lists.07@gmail.com> wrote:

Sharninder wrote:

A simple rm should not have removed user commands which are in other directories. There must be something else wrong. In any case if you really have lost the binaries there is not much that you can do at this point.

One possible scenario is that something "clever" was done, like aliasing "rm" to "rm -r".

But yes, if you managed to recursively delete your root directory tree then a restore from backup / rebuild is on the cards.


George.

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