https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/suse-linux-recovery/m-p/2634875#M973 Hi Fplks<BR /><BR />by mistake a linux machine was trashed<BR />when someone did a bad tar command<BR />something like 'tar -cvf /dev/hda1 filename'<BR /><BR />now no files are visible on the machine with 'ls' but we can still view all the files and move them around.<BR /><BR />i have a backup on a tape, should I restore /dev from here and reboot, or try fsck <BR />first ? <BR /><BR />any ideas are welcome ! Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:25:10 GMT Walter Keating 2001-12-21T19:25:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/suse-linux-recovery/m-p/2634875#M973 Hi Fplks<BR /><BR />by mistake a linux machine was trashed<BR />when someone did a bad tar command<BR />something like 'tar -cvf /dev/hda1 filename'<BR /><BR />now no files are visible on the machine with 'ls' but we can still view all the files and move them around.<BR /><BR />i have a backup on a tape, should I restore /dev from here and reboot, or try fsck <BR />first ? <BR /><BR />any ideas are welcome ! Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:25:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/suse-linux-recovery/m-p/2634875#M973 Walter Keating 2001-12-21T19:25:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/suse-linux-recovery/m-p/2634876#M974 Hello,<BR /><BR />Bad luck ! In fact, by typing "tar cvf /dev/hda1 <FILENAME>", you just considered the whole partition /dev/hda1 as if it were a tape device. Depending on the size of <FILENAME>, the beginning of that partition now contains the exact contents of that file.<BR /><BR />Unless <FILENAME> is very small size, I don't think fsck could do anything in this case. The only thing you have to do is to save your data to another location, re-install the system and restore data.<BR /><BR />Good luck.<BR /><BR />Kodjo<BR /></FILENAME></FILENAME></FILENAME> Fri, 21 Dec 2001 23:16:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/suse-linux-recovery/m-p/2634876#M974 Kodjo Agbenu 2001-12-21T23:16:22Z