Hello, I am sorry that I am joining this list only now that I need help, but hope you give me a warm welcome.
Bottom line of the long story is that I did something like rm -r / and only hit Ctrl-C after a short while. I did it this morning from a remote shell and all I know is that the /bin dir is gone and now I cannot login again. The computer is still running at home because it's also a bridge for my LAN so my family can still surf from the other computer. Now I'm searching for a way to re-link all the files that were unlinked during a very specific period of time. Is there such a way to use the filesystem's journal or am I only having fantasies about easy recovery? I read this post but I'm not sure whether the described method is the right solution to my problem. http://www.antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments The main idea there is reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l /root/recovery.log /dev/hda3 and then find what you need from /lost+found (in my case it would be everything). My best hope right now is to find /bin,/etc,/usr... in /lost+found and just mv them back to /. The long story: I played a bit with libpam-chroot a few days ago and was unable to chroot to new jail. It said that it cannot find the file /bin/bash although it was there. Today, at work, I came up with the idea to try chrooting to a real environment, so I know everything is ok and I only need to tweak the jail. I did /# mkdir /jail /# mount /dev/[my root partition] /jail /# mount /dev/[my home partition] /jail/home /# chroot jail/ /bin/bash /# ls /jail/ and everything seemed ok because nothing was mounted under the new /jail/ dir. Happy as I was, I exit'ed the chroot and nearly left the room as I decided to delete the new jail. I did /# rm -r /jail/ and only hit Ctrl-C when it started to report about the /dev/pt? that was in use and could not be deleted. Your feedback and advice would be very appreciated, Amir Yalon ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
