debian rescue?

[Michael Prokop]

* Tyler Littlefield <compgeek13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hay, is there a way to rescue debian?
> for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings
> when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it,
> because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system
> found."

You mean the global root-directory "/"? Ouch.

It depends on your filesystem. With ext2 you have good chances to be
able to restore files using e2undel. But with a journal file system
(ext3, xfs,...) it's very hard to restore files. :-/

Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before
blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;)

HTH && regards,
-mika-
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