recover /bin

[hotdox]

I ocasionly enter "rm -rf /bin" instead "rm -rf ./bin" under root. How can I recover /bin directory on my Fedora 10. Or may be reinstall with minimal tesualties?

[maflynn]

You occasionally delete your /bin directory???

Well if that's the case, then I recommend you use rsync regularly to backup your system.

[forkbomb]

1. Get in the habit of running rm -rf /root/bin (that's harder to misypte than rm -rf ./bin !)
2. Maybe put it in a script if you need to occasionally delete /root/bin


If you need to recover a system now, is it possible to get another Fedora box running, update it, and copy the contents of /bin from the fresh machine over to your other one?

[pete_1967]

Just in case: You do know that /root/bin nor any other 'bin' directory are not "Recycle bins" for deleted files?

[Dies]

If you 'occasionally' delete /bin, how do you 'occasionally' recover from it?

More importantly though, if this is something that happens to you occasionally, then you'll have to forgive me for being honest when I say that I think you may be better off with an OS which doesn't allow or at least tries hard to prevent it's user from taking such stupid actions.

[Gödel]

try yum reinstall on a selection of the following rpms (might have to download them and do it from a rescue session)

alsa-utils-1.0.21-2.fc11.x86_64
bash-4.0-8.fc11.x86_64
coreutils-7.2-4.fc11.x86_64
cpio-2.9.90-5.fc11.x86_64
ed-1.1-2.fc11.x86_64
fuse-2.8.1-1.fc11.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-5.fc11.x86_64
gettext-0.17-12.fc11.x86_64
grep-2.5.3-4.fc11.x86_64
gzip-1.3.12-9.fc11.x86_64
iptables-ipv6-1.4.3.1-1.fc11.x86_64
iputils-20071127-8.fc11.x86_64
kbd-1.15-7.fc11.x86_64
mailx-12.4-2.fc11.x86_64
net-tools-1.60-93.fc11.x86_64
plymouth-0.7.0-0.2009.05.15.1.fc11.x86_64
procps-3.2.7-27.fc11.x86_64
redhat-lsb-3.2-6.fc11.x86_64
rpm-4.7.1-3.fc11.x86_64
sed-4.2.1-1.fc11.x86_64
setserial-2.17-23.fc11.x86_64
util-linux-ng-2.14.2-11.fc11.x86_64

(i just did 'yum provides /bin/*' and parsed the output to get a shortlist)

[hotdox]

I have "./bin" dir as target for cmake. under root I do "make install/uninstall". Forget to exit I start "ccmake .", "./bin" was created under root and can be deleted under root only.
Now fedora couldnt be booted (it want /bin/sh).
The problem is notebook. It is not so easy to take hard drive. And there is no another fedora computer at this moment.
LiveCD doesnt see hard drive partition in regular mode.