Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:20:30 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very stupid mistake: a part of /usr is deleted Message-ID: <i6qo7t$3ql$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20100915153638.19173erppua441d2@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <20100915153638.19173erppua441d2@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de>
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On 09/15/10 15:36, Zara Kanaeva wrote: > Hi all, > > vor 2 hours i made a very stupid mistake: i have deleted (as root > naturally) a part of /usr-directory. I have definitely deleted .snap and > presumably 100-150 files in /usr/bin. > uname -a -> > FreeBSD (XXXXXX).uni-tuebingen.de 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: > Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 > root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 That is actually an easy situation to recover, you can do it in at least these ways: 1) if you build/upgrade from source, you can either reinstall if you have working /usr/obj or try and rebuild them if you have working /usr/src 2) if you have another machine with the same FreeBSD version and architecture, simply copy the missing files (with tar, scp, ftp, fetch/wget, etc...) 3) if you have networking and at least working fetch / ftp / wget, cat and tar, you can fetch the files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.0-RELEASE/base/ and use install.sh to reinstall the base binaries Remember that those files are not magical, you can restore them any way you are able. You can even boot the live CD (from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/), mount the appropriate file system and copy the files from the CD.
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