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esapersona
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 7:34 am Post subject: 'rm -rf /' ?(The wonders of 'emerge -e') |
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ArgH!
I thought that I would benchmark some different filesystems (encrypted and not) and wrote a script to help me out. A portion of that script:
Ran great until I thought I'd try something different:
| Code: | | #time ./bench "/mnt/stor..... /mnt/fileSystem..." |
Forgetting that the quotes would become $1...DOH! (because $2 was now empty, the rm -rf $2/* became rm -rf /*) 
But that's okay - Thanks to my quick reflexes  , I managed to ctrl-c. Only a few symlinks in /dev, and my /bin directory died. (thanks to whoever thought to not have /boot mounted automatically in the install instructions!).
But here is my tip:
My friend suggested I reinstall, but don't allow anything to be overwritten...but Gentoo is freaking great and has a better solution:
I slapped my knoppix cd in and untar'd my stage1 tarball into a ramdisk. I then copied the /bin part over to my crippled partition, chrooted and typed:
And soon, if that doesn't fix everything:
Perhaps this really doesn't need to be posted, but I felt that I should just in case someone else does something similar and doesn't have a friend to bring up these brilliant suggestions...
(and also so that someone can point out anything else that I may need to do  ) |
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russo79
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Better yet:
Use qpkg -I -c -v to check all the damaged packages
and emerge only the ones that have files the are missing!!!
Just my 2 cents 
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esapersona
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm...That would be good, if I had qpkg =/
It's not a standard Gentoo thing, is it?
*edit* RTFM (okay - qpkg is in gentoolkit) Thanks alot! =) */edit*
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bsolar
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| esapersona wrote: | | It's not a standard Gentoo thing, is it? |
It's in the gentoolkit package.
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