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Unless you got it backed up.. your pretty much screwed really. Unless somehow you can get a mock default configuration but even then you've lost some important configuration files, like passwd, group, etc...
I don't know what to tell you bud, seems like this would be good time to back up anything else you want to save and reinstall, probably lot less trouble.
Distribution: Red Hat 8.0, Slackware 8.1, Knoppix 3.7, Lunar 1.3, Sorcerer
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Originally posted by hitesh_linux hi
That's ok but how can retrive it,suggest me some setup for that.
thanx
Hitesh
If you use ext3, you are pretty much screwed. If ext2, there is a remote chance that you can get your system back on its feet if you have a thorough knowledge of what your config files ( /etc/*) look like. I mean, you should be able to guess the filename from looking at its contents. That is if you havent moved things around and overwritten the deleted ( unlisted ) filesystem blocks already. Not to give you false hopes, /etc is vital to the proper operation.
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