On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:58 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in /
> unreadable:
>
> for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done
er... you just executed everything in your home directory and piped the
output to a file... I think you wanted "do echo $entry"? or the simpler
"find $HOME >> found"?
anyway, it shouldn't have corrupted your filesystem, but it looks like
it did.
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
you probably want to shutdown and fsck your filesystem. Then, start
looking for your backups :(
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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