> > Just to perhaps clarify: from what you said, and the command-outputs that > you gave, you at some point have had: > > /mnt/lfs/lfs.backups/ > > and > > /lfs.backups/ > > > And you then moved at least one of them to be under /home and so to become: > > /home/lfs.backups/ > > > Now you're additionally talking about: > > /temptools/7.5tools/ > > > One of the above dirs may be the ch.5-toolchain-backup that you want: > going by the name, of course, it may be '/temptools/7.5tools/'; but it's > still not at all clear. > > > If you *know* that you have got a proper ch.5-toolchain-backup, and > you *know* that there is now nothing under /mnt/lfs that you want to > keep, then empty out the contents of /mnt/lfs/ , and then restore the > ch.5-toolchain-backup's 'tools' directory to be /mnt/lfs/tools , then goto > top of 'Changing Ownership' page at end of ch.5, and resume from there. > > > If that preceding paragraph is not clear, then I guess either someone else > explain it better/differently, &/or just start book afresh. > > > Overall, such a situation can normally very likely still be un-tangled and > quite readily from this point: but if that aforenoted para is not clear, > then I think it'd be not an appropriate approach here. Hence the pointing > to the fallback of just starting the book afresh
Okay I deleted everything in /mnt/lfs and will begin again afresh. (the backup of tools was in the root dir of the host computer until you told me to make a backup dir in /home then I copied the backup of tools to that directory and..... that is where the confusion is from..... sorry.
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