On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs Subject: Re: [CentOS] Restore the moved directory
Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:24:01 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
By mistake, I moved the directory /etc to the /home. How can i restore the sytem back (or, at least that directory back)?
Boot with a rescue disk, mount your (broken) system under /sysimage and then do:
mv /sysimage/home/etc /sysimage/
+1
Or even boot Parted Magic from the UBCD disk here:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
New features in UBCD V5.0 include:
* New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices.
* New! UBCD V5.0 now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.
When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.
That will give you a full Linux desktop rescue system with nice GUI for mounting partitions, and also Midnight Commander for doing the stuff you want to.
Well worth the effort to download and burn to CD. It has 100+ utilities for sysadmin and system setup/repair jobs.
HTH
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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