Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

[J. Roeleveld]

On 25 August 2014 12:19:02 CEST, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
>On 25/08/14 17:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 25/08/2014 11:11, Dale wrote:
>>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>> On 25/08/2014 08:17, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:58:36PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
>>>>>> Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder!
>>>>>> And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone!
>>>>>> Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other
>solution?
>>>>>>  Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am looking
>for!
>>>>> You should be able to get away with an emerge @system @world -evDN
>instead of
>>>>> a complete re-install.
>>>>> You should first get a copy of a minimal working /usr though (like
>from
>>>>> a stage3 tarball), otherwise you will run into errors as /usr/bin
>is where
>>>>> python and other stuff resides that you'll need for installation.
>>>>
>>>> gcc is also in /usr which happily guarantees that nothing can be
>fixed
>>>> without unpacking a stage first
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems moving so much critical stuff to /usr was a really bright
>>> move.  < lots of sarcasm there >
>>
>> and,
>>
>> rm -rf /usr is not a user error one can reasonably expect to recover
>from
>>
>>
>and wasnt many of the file system changes being made because some folks
>wanted a read only /usr but were not there yet?
>
>BillK

Actually. Not being allowed to have /usr on a seperate filesystem as was the case for a very long time made mounting /usr read only near impossible.

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