Background:
I think I messed up …
Wanted to get a lot of files out of a nested folderstructure 3 levels deep and used mv /*/*/* ./ somewhere deep in my personal folders.
I got a lot of errors and quick as I could stopped it.
Now that folder is is messed up with a lot of stuff (see below) which I dont know the origin of.
The good news: I have fairly recent backups
Questions:
- Could they be from subdirectories in my home folder?
- Could they be from subdirectories outside my home folder? Especially grubenv caught my eye.
- Could it be potentially dangerous to reboot? I leave my PC on untill I know more.
- Would it be possible to reverse the moving in some way, to put them back where they belong, even manually?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Files:
Sorry for the long list
0 1 10 10:1 10:125 10:126 10:127 10:130 10:183 10:224 10:228 10:229 10:231 … 116:8 116:9 … 13:81 … 8 81:0 81:1 81:2 81:3 9 arch_status attr autogroup by-diskseq by-id by-label by-partlabel by-partuuid by-path by-uuid cgroup cmdline comm coredump_filter cpu_resctrl_groups cpuset fd fdinfo fonts gid_map grubenv limits list.txt locale loginuid map_files maps mountinfo mounts net ns numa_maps nvme0n1p8_crypt oom_adj oom_score oom_score_adj projid_map sched schedstat sessionid setgroups smaps smaps_rollup stat statm status task timens_offsets timers timerslack_ns uid_map unicode.pf2 usb wchan x86_64-efi
Yeah, I see, command wildcard asterix being markdown bold. Original command:
You moved everything down 3 dirs from root to your working dir.
Ouch … feel so stupid.
I once ran ‘chown -R root:root /’ in a misguided attempt to solve some permissions issues I was having. 0/10, do not recommend. It turns out a lot of system things aren’t root owned…
Running a stupid command and learning from it is part of the learning process.
If it makes you feel better, I’ve dealt with so many servers where someone ran chmod -R 777 / thinking it’d solve all of their permission issues.
Anything user accessible, so not that bad. Restore one backup up and move from there.
What you have in title of the post, body of the post and in this screenshot all disagree with each other.
Ah, keen eye, corrected the title and body text to match the screenshot. (From terminal history so I think thats what I actually ran)
Use backtics to quote code fragments. Tripple backtics to block quote. You should be able to edit your post.
Oh that worked, thnx!!
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