Dear Reader,

Greetings!!

I am using rhel 5.3, by mistake I deleted the /opt directory, so is there any chance to get it back from the CD or the image of the OS, or do I need to go for a re-installation of the operating System to get it back ? Its just my testing environment, so any level of R&D could be done.


Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Amitesh Sahay






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I believe in a vanilla installation of RHEL, /opt is empty. So,
assuming you didn't install anything critical to the base OS in /opt,
then you can probably just mkdir /opt.


On 5/20/2011 5:00 PM, amiteshsahay@aol.com wrote:

Dear Reader,

Greetings!!

I am using rhel 5.3, by mistake I deleted the /opt directory, so is there any chance to get it back from the CD or the image of the OS, or do I need to go for a re-installation of the operating System to get it back ? Its just my testing environment, so any level of R&D could be done.


Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Amitesh Sahay








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On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 17:00 -0400, amiteshsahay@aol.com wrote:
> Dear Reader,
>
> Greetings!!
>
> I am using rhel 5.3, by mistake I deleted the /opt directory, so is there any chance to get it back from the CD or the image of the OS, or do I need to go for a re-installation of the operating System to get it back ? Its just my testing environment, so any level of R&D could be done.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Amitesh Sahay
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi,

Did you have anything in it? Are you getting any errors now? Are you
sure you deleted only /opt?
If it was empty just create a new one with mkdir.
Usually you install/find 3rd-party soft in it.

Regards,
Ges

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assuming you are using ext based filesystems we've used extundelete:
http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Grzegorz Witkowski <geslinux@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 17:00 -0400, amiteshsahay@aol.com wrote:
> > Dear Reader,
> >
> > Greetings!!
> >
> > I am using rhel 5.3, by mistake I deleted the /opt directory, so is there
> any chance to get it back from the CD or the image of the OS, or do I need
> to go for a re-installation of the operating System to get it back ? Its
> just my testing environment, so any level of R&D could be done.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Amitesh Sahay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Did you have anything in it? Are you getting any errors now? Are you
> sure you deleted only /opt?
> If it was empty just create a new one with mkdir.
> Usually you install/find 3rd-party soft in it.
>
> Regards,
> Ges
>
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