Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 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 :(
>
>
Did just that. But no luck with fsck. So I had a tarballed and bzip2ed
backup from about a month ago and used that. Thanks for the suggestions
anyway guys :)
