[plug] oh dear :(

[John Usher (Maptek)]

For what its worth, I just booted my vmware linux box, took a snapshot and had a try at getting some stuff working.... Unfortunately I have redhat 9, not gentoo, but took a look to see what I could try.
 
mkdir /home/shite
cd /
mv * /home/shite
 
now quite screwed
 
tried playing with /home/shite/sbin/ldconfig, but had no joy.
 
Used sln:
 
/home/shite/sbin/sln /home/shite/lib /lib
 
Now I can 
 
/home/shite/sbin/mv /home/shite/* /
 
Lots of stuff is back in its original place.....but I can't move /lib back...
 
Couldn't 'reboot' had to power off and restart, but its all looking pretty good...
 
Looks like pretty much everything is back up and working for my vmware system.
 
If you have .../sbin/sln, you may be in luck!

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Kimberly Shelt [mailto:kim at linmagau.org] 
	Sent: Wed 10/03/2004 6:44 AM 
	To: plug at plug.linux.org.au 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [plug] oh dear :(
	
	

	I did something rather silly this morning in my tired state of mind..
	
	mv * to some random directory..
	
	I was of course trying to move the contents of a mounted floppy but
	sadly I was sitting in / at the time..
	
	so things look like this at the moment..
	bash: cd: /root: No such file or directory
	
	tab complete shows me the following..
	root at allmine:/# /home/misskim/oldfloppy/
	bin         cdrom       etc         man         none        sbin        usr        
	boot        dev         lib         microdrive  opt         share       var        
	cdaudio     dvd         lost+found  mnt         root        tmp  
	
	but I seem unable to move anything ...
	
	aka
	root at allmine:/# /home/misskim/oldfloppy/bin/mv /home/misskim/oldfloppy/tmp/ /tmp
	bash: /home/misskim/oldfloppy/bin/mv: No such file or directory
	
	Given I am in dear old Kalg.. I have no idea "if" there is a shop around that
	actually has any Linux distro's, and my last copy of knoppix was left in Perth
	I am not sure how to proceed..
	
	I am also guessing that when this dialup session dies, and am probably not going
	to be able to get back on line.. :(
	
	Any ideas folks, whilst I still have connectivity and a root prompt :)
	
	Kim
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