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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:19:17AM -0400, ">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com wrote:
> Having been laid low in bed with flu, bored out of my mind, I found myself
> at my Linux/Oracle box. With a heavy head I did some playing about. Reboot
> and soon found I had done some real silly stuff (like moving my /lib
> directory). Of course I have no boot and rescue disks. But I managed to
> create these on my other Linux box. I managed to boot in and load up through
> rescue mode, and managed to mount various partitions by making a directory
> and mounting onto that directory i.e.. mkdir /x then mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1
> /x. So I am feeling pretty good about this all, and get my /lib back to
> where it should be. I reboot and find that some how the /etc/fstab has been
> changed and has my new mount points (/x and so on). So I guess my question
> is how do I recover my original fstab, what and where did I go wrong. And I
> guess more importantly does anyone have any resources on this type of
> disaster recovery procedures, tips, etc.
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
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