Re: I did a really dumb thing - follow up

Don Calfa wrote:

> Jared Anderson wrote:
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>> FROM:     Don Calfa <tvat3000@ponymail.us> DATE:     Sat, 23 Oct 2004 
>> 08:59:08 -0700 TO  :     plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
>> SUBJ:     I did a really dumb thing

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>>> I 'accidentally' removed my /bin directory on a typo and now I'm
>>> hosed. Can't login. and I have a Software Raid on RH8. What's the
>>> best fix?
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>> You may also try to 'undelete' the bin directory, depending on a few
>> factors - mainly, if much disk activity occurred since you deleted
>> the bin directory.
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>> Try booting Knoppix and running midnight commander, which has the
>> ability to 'undelete'.
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>> $ man mc
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>> $ mc
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> My /bin directory I found on my Raid1 directory of /Volume via NFS. I
> think what I'm going to do is:
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> copy /bin locally to another system
> Boot Knoppix
> Put the contents of /bin back.
>
> that should work and if it doesn't, I can try an upgrade to RH9. I
> remember before I built that server that the software RAID was visible
> between a Mandrake and a Slackware install
>
I know what I did. I untarred a tarball in my Volume (SW RAID)
directory and the contents of the tarball had a bunch of *.bin files. I
wanted to move the *.bin files to another directory and instead of
*.bin, I mistyped *bin and that moved the *.bin files AND the /bin
directory to my /Volume directory. I found my /bin directory later via
NFS from another system.

I could have fixed this if I hadn't logged out of my SSH session.

Not being able to use webmin, login, or SSH, I came to the fact that I
needed to reboot this system to fix it. Knoppix didn't work for me
(3.6) because it mounted the directoried in read-only and I couldn't
find a quick way to do otherwise. Lesson for the future.

An update of RH8 didn't work because the packages on the system are
later than what's on the media.
An update of RH9 didn't work because of the same as above.
A reinstall to RH9 without formatting worked. Needed to make a few
changes to postfix and it all seems to work.

Now this happened on a server for me and no one else and the loss of the
/bin directory is pretty frightening if this were to happen on a
production server. On the plus side, all the services continued to work
until I killed the server (obviously)

Now being paranoid, would the addition of a say /bin2 directory be a
good idea?
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