Re: HELP HELP HELP
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Alberto Maurizi wrote:
>
> I accidentally pushed the reset button!
> This resulted in a lot of errors in the disk and
> several files lost.
>
> Could anybody tell me how to check the system consistency?
You could have taken notes of the files mentioned on console during
fsck'ing which could have given you an idea of what happened. You were
asked what to do for each problem encountered, were you not?
Some files might turn up in /lost&found. You might recognize some text
files by their content.
The best way I can think of is to run a tripwire integrity check (after
reinstalling it (or run from floppy) and/or the database from its backup
as necessary). But it is essential that you ran tripwire before your
'little accident'.
Then reinstall the packages to which the lost files belong. You can find
the packages by 'dpkg -S name_of_lost_file' assuming your dpkg data are
not corrupted.
Jens
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