On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:06:31 +0200 (CEST)
szonyi calin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
> I'm new to the list.
> If this is OT please tell me and i won't bother 
> you again.
> 
> I'm not a newbie but I need help.
> I managed to do a rm -rf /
> It erased my /bin /boot /dev 
> and something from /mnt

Hi Calin,

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What possessed you to execute that command? Don't worry, 
I'm not here to mock you- when I fiurst started with Linux, the first ever command I 
executed on my test-install was that; just to see how dangerous it really was. Because 
it was my test-install it didn't matter- no important data loss.

You mention in your email that you have backups, so rather than mess around trying to 
recover the disk, simply wipe it clean, install Slackware again and then when you have 
your system up and running import/copy over the files that you require from your 
backup. In most cases that should be a handful of files from the /etc directory that 
you *may* have edited, and your /home directory.

Good Luck, and don't go executing naughty commands like that again! :-)

G

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