I accidentally moves files from / to somewhere in ~/ without sudo. I tried my best moving everything back, but it seems I messed up. So I believe my issue is caused by missing files or corrupted files in /.
I couldn’t find any other posts about my issue so I made my own. The boot loading process when I took these images was already 10 min in with no progess.
I tried to boot through previous versions and the recovery version found in GRUB but to no avail.
The output messages has been repeating over and over.
It should not be possible to move files out of / without using sudo. Copying, certainly, but not moving. Moving the file means the system has to write to the directory where the file was originally located to show it is no longer there, and that is not permitted for a normal user.
Were you able to reboot before you attempted the recovery? or did you panic and attempt the recovery before rebooting?
It seems possible that your attempt at recovery may have placed files into the OS area with improper ownership which then could prevent booting.
Try booting a live media and then check for files under / in the various directories that may be owned by your user instead of root.
One easy way to do that would be to first mount the installed root file system under /mnt then use ls -R -l /mnt | grep $USER or ls -R -l /mnt | grep -v root . Do that with /home unmounted to avoid the spam of files under /home that are owned by your user. Replace $USER with your users name.
Only some files from / got moved. The once that didn’t move required sudo. If you mean recovery by trying to move back my files, then yes, I did that before rebooting. I couldn’t shut down my computer; there was no option for that, only logging out. In the end I just held the power button (not the best choice I made).
I simply want to recover some personal files (don’t know why I didn’t do that before forcefully shutting down my PC). I don’t mind reinstalling Fedora.
I currently don’t have a USB stick on me, but I will try acquire one as fast as possible and get back right to you.
Hey! I acquired a Live USB stick with and booted a Fedora ISO from it. When you say “installed root file system”, do you mean my filesystem on my computer’s hard drive? How do I mount it under /mnt? How can I avoid mounting /home? I only managed to mount it with the help of the Files software, but it mounts both home and root and not under /mnt.
Also, I forgot to mention my disk is encrypted with LUKS, so it probably changes things.
I am new to Linux so I am clueless about these kinds of stuff.
