debian rescue?

debian rescue?

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hay, is there a way to rescue debian?
for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it, because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system found."
Thanks,

Re: debian rescue?

[Michael Prokop]

* Tyler Littlefield <compgeek13@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hay, is there a way to rescue debian?
> for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings
> when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it,
> because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system
> found."

You mean the global root-directory "/"? Ouch.

It depends on your filesystem. With ext2 you have good chances to be
able to restore files using e2undel. But with a journal file system
(ext3, xfs,...) it's very hard to restore files. :-/

Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before
blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;)

HTH && regards,
-mika-
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Re: debian rescue?

[Tyler Littlefield]

not /... but when... well, here is what is going on, I just installed 
another hd, and got rid of the other one.
Maybe I got rid of the wrong hd. lol
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Prokop" <mika@grml.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: debian rescue?


* Tyler Littlefield <compgeek13@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hay, is there a way to rescue debian?
> for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings
> when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it,
> because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system
> found."

You mean the global root-directory "/"? Ouch.

It depends on your filesystem. With ext2 you have good chances to be
able to restore files using e2undel. But with a journal file system
(ext3, xfs,...) it's very hard to restore files. :-/

Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before
blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;)

HTH && regards,
-mika-
-- 
 ,'"`.         http://www.michael-prokop.at/
(  grml.org -» Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins
 `._,'         http://www.grml.org/


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Re: debian rescue?

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before
> blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;)

If you still want to use bash though, put the below into your
$HOME/.bash_profile:

alias rm="rm -i"

This will make rm prompt you before deleting anything.

Greg



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