[SOLVED] /etc renamed mistakenly -- Verry Urgent

[rachid]

Hello Forum,

I mistakenly executed a command that renamed the /etc folder to a file.rpm, and now i'm not able to boot normally my server.

I'm looking for a solution that can permit to recover m /etc folder, i tried to boot on single mode to rename it back but the file system is read only mounted .

Is there any solution to my problem?

Best regards.

[Irithori]

- Boot a liveCD such as Knoppix, ubuntu, <whatever>
- mount the device
- rename the directory back to /etc

[rachid]

I can't see the partition under Knoppix, under /dev i can see an sda2 file, i think this is my partition but when i try to mount but i'm not able to do it, i got error msg.

Do you have any idea?

Regards.

[MikeTbob]

Boot Knoppix and post the output of these commands please.

fdisk -l

mount

[rachid]

Here is the requested outputs

root@Microknoppix:~#
root@Microknoppix:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 78.4 GB, 78381957120 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9529 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003cc21

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 9529 76437270 8e Linux LVM
root@Microknoppix:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sr0 on /mnt-system type iso9660 (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro,relatime)
unionfs on /UNIONFS type aufs (rw,relatime,si=d7613ccc,noplink)
unionfs on /home type aufs (rw,relatime,si=d7613ccc,noplink)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/run type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k)
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/lock type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k)
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/log type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=102400k)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=20480k)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=1777)
root@Microknoppix:~#

[rachid]

Is there any update please?

Thank you

[yancek]

Your first need to create the mount point, example: mkdir /mnt/sda2 (you don't need to call it sda2, use whatever you wish)

Then mount: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 (I used ext3 for filesystem type, if that is not correct, change it)

You should then be able to access. I see you are using LVM which I am totally unfamiliar with so I'm not sure this will work?

[rachid]

Thank you

I just tried what you posted and i got the result bellow:


root@Microknoppix:~# mkdir /mnt/sda2
root@Microknoppix:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/sda2 busy
root@Microknoppix:~#

Any proposition?

Thank you

[rachid]

Any update?

Sorry for the stress

[yancek]

Your output shows /mnt/sda2 is already mounted. Can you navigate to the /mnt/sda2 directory and see if you are able to view directories/files? I don't really have any other suggestions, not that familiar with mount command or LVM.