First, why are you running a script as root? A normal user account can't delete /bin unless your permissions are screwed up. Second, as others have suggested, your best bet is probably to reinstall any broken packages. Finally, if /home and /etc are toast, try something like testdisk or a live rescue CD, but don't expect to recover a lot. If you really need to run a script as root which could do serious damage, run it in a chroot next time. I have a second drive just for backups to prevent cases like this, so try copying /home to another drive. Don't feel too badly though. I've read stories of quite a number of people who ran "rm -rf *" and thought they were in their home directory but were actually in the root. On 8/29/2012 10:53 AM, Stephen Dawes wrote: > After so many years of using Linux, I have finally done it, a Major Bonehead > move. I wrote a script, and when I tested it, it went wild on me. When it > ran it deleted the contents of /bin and I don't know what else. Any ideas, > short of a re-install of the OS, on how to recover from this Major Bonehead > move?
