root@boardbox:/boot# ls /tmp
gconfd-root/ sess_91ee7100595f1625e5299a517d27c738
http___www_weather_gov_alerts_in_cap sess_99bc80182fd920a9ffd2d722fc69d2ac
http_www_nws_noaa_gov_alerts_in_cap sess_d24cdde29ebbba8fc4376324bfcad4b1
http_www_weather_gov_alerts_ca_cap sess_ea12bcb3972ed9aab2bcd432cbb5fd82
http_www_weather_gov_alerts_in_cap tmp.0rfyXB
httpwwwweathergovalertsincap tmp.Or1dPr/
kde-root/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-05.34.44pm.sql
keyring-CEA5cK/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.05.25pm.sql
ksocket-root/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.12.21pm.sql
mapping-root= wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.12.35pm.sql
mc-root/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.12.54pm.sql
mcop-root/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.13.11pm.sql
orbit-root/ wx2-tmp-07.31.05-06.16.04pm.sql
sess_0988d6fb6044cdd00cc8fea9514eeb58 wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.06.00pm.sql
sess_0e906c45d10a130777302a4f06d00994 wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.10.17pm.sql
sess_16af4a724dca306d8180886dfe5c3c88 wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.35.10pm.sql
sess_5e2789facd132c3b9ab1067db64aa3df wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.37.31pm.sql
sess_78127ecf53f20ae9ddddb9e5cf590997 wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.37.56pm.sql
sess_7f5aceb547fe05aa60a108c3385969ed wx2-tmp-08.18.05-10.52.04pm.sql
root@boardbox:/boot# rm -rf *
root@boardbox:/boot# ls
root@boardbox:/boot# cd ..
root@boardbox:/# cd bo
By the time I got to the first "o" in "boot", I realized that I had just purged the contents /boot, rather than /tmp like I had thought.
I'll be reinstalling linux on that machine tomorrow.
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oooooo..... ouch.
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i remember there being an undelete tool in linux... never used it, and not sure how well it works, but maybe give it a try?
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lol, why reinstall linux or run an undelete tool over the /boot when you can also just install a new kernel, lilo script (don't know if you're a grub user or not?) and whatever else finds it's way into a man's /boot dir... As easy as eating cake?
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Last time I tried those tools they didn't work. Why? Because I don't use the ubiquitous ext filesystem. I use reiserfs.