On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:02, Steve wrote: > Hey all, just a word of caution. > If you have the need to install Nvidia's Cg Runtime environment under > Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc, make sure to grab the RPM and use Alien. Do not > use the tarball and move the files over (which to me at least seemed > like the logical thing to do). > > Yep folks I just completely hosed my install with a "sudo mv * /" > fortunately I have oodles of RAM and most of the OS userland is > currently cached there, but this will be my last post for some time, I > now need to re-install (my entire /usr partition is gone). > > Try not to laugh too hard, when I come back, hopefully someone will > have some nice horror stories in reply to make me feel better :) >
You can probably recover w/o shutting down: mount a live cd of your distro, mount your root w/ -bind somewhere under that, chroot to the live cd, and cp -a /usr /relative/mnt/point/of/real_root/usr then you can probably use your package manager to repair the rest by reinstalling what's already installed. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
