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Re: [LUG] /usr/ directories deleted!?

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Subject: Re: [LUG] /usr/ directories deleted!?
From: Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:48:01 +0100
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Maybe you typed rm -rfÂ /usr /bin/sonething by accident. See the space after usr.

Perhaps it was a semicolon outre a cracker.

On Jun 13, 2011 10:33 AM, "Gibbs" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Turned off the work computer on Thursday, booted it up today to find
> that graphics driver failed. Apt wasn't working and was complaining
> about sbin so I fired up the Ubuntu Live CD to find that /usr/sbin,
> /usr/local and /usr/share had vanished. I've copied them over from the
> Live CD and it seems to work but what the hell? AFAIK I was doing online
> stuff on Thursday and didn't even use the terminal. I'm pretty sure I
> would remember removing /usr/sbin for a start!
>
> Any ideas how this could happen?
>
> Cheers,

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