On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:36:16AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold > enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system > breakage. > > There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create > archives of any directory. So, the obvious action to me is, make a > tar.gz archive before deleting any system directory. That way, you > will be empowered with recovery in the ill fated event of breakage. In > the event of boot failure you can use the backup (.tar.gz) file to > repair the damage restoring bootability.
Assuming, of course, that you have some other way of booting the machine so you can still run commands to restore the files. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
