This reminds me my old Laptop with Linux installed that had Optical drive broken and no USB boot option, there was also no option to buy new Optical Drive. I was moving directories around to make some space on root directory. I've moved /var/ to /home directory and create symlink and it worked. But then later I wanted to do the same with /usr directory that had all shared libraries in /usr/lib/. In the process of moving files got some error I was not able to use any binary file like cd, ls or ln. Only applications that was running was working.
I was certain that the laptop was dead and I will not able to use it anymore since I will not be able to install new system. So the task was to copy somehow all my important data. Luckily I was using Firefox and I've had FireFTP installed, so I've borrow my mother Windows laptop and installed FTP server and was able to copy my data over WiFi. Later it turns out that you could buy used DVD burner for that laptop, so it was resurrected and after installing Windows XP I've given that laptop to my mother.
I was certain that the laptop was dead and I will not able to use it anymore since I will not be able to install new system. So the task was to copy somehow all my important data. Luckily I was using Firefox and I've had FireFTP installed, so I've borrow my mother Windows laptop and installed FTP server and was able to copy my data over WiFi. Later it turns out that you could buy used DVD burner for that laptop, so it was resurrected and after installing Windows XP I've given that laptop to my mother.