accidently overwrote home@ via ssh

[master-richie]

I wasn't paying attention and overwrote home@ in the root directory while copying a file. no clue where it links to - my /root directory?

any ideas on how to restore this? thanks!

 

[dlavigne]

Backups or snapshots.

 

[jgreco]

Backups or snapshots.

Awarded most unhelpful response of the week.

Code:

 % ls -ld /home
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Mar 19 18:21 /home@ -> /var/home

Hope that helps.

 

[master-richie]

I don't have a /home directory in my var directory ... I'm logged in as root so I wonder if it just linked to /root ???

 

[jgreco]

And you win the stump-the-chump prize for the week.

Code:

% ls -ld /home /home/ /var/home
ls: /home/: No such file or directory
ls: /var/home: No such file or directory
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Mar 19 18:21 /home@ -> /var/home

"Huh."

I didn't think to look further. I kind of doubt /home is important in any case. If you want home directories, define them on your pool.

 

[master-richie]

And you win the stump-the-chump prize for the week.

Code:

% ls -ld /home /home/ /var/home
ls: /home/: No such file or directory
ls: /var/home: No such file or directory
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Mar 19 18:21 /home@ -> /var/home

"Huh."

I didn't think to look further. I kind of doubt /home is important in any case. If you want home directories, define them on your pool.

I just wanted to make sure I didn't delete something that 6 months from now is going to cause me problems - AFTER all my data has been transferred to and deleted from its source pc's

 

[jgreco]

I fully appreciate a little paranoia.