Restore default ownership in CentOS after terrible chown

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Published on 2010-05-14T15:38:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 15:44 UTC
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Is there any way to restore the default ownership of a CentOS filesystem after an accidental chown -R user:group /* ?

Before I go and reinstall, I thought I'd ask and perhaps save some time. I'm in the process of setting up a new dev machine (thankfully not prod) and typed too fast or missed the . key or something. I tried to cancel as soon as I caught it but all my /bin /boot /dev etc had already been changed.

Is there hope, or just reinstall and be happy it wasn't a production machine?

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