Re: Reconstructing Var?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900, you wrote:
>if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed.
>reinstall your system from scratch.
This is what I was afraid of. And yes, it's ALL gone :-(. I had gotten so
used to the reliabiltiy of 'unstable' that I had neglected to make proper
backups for quite some time. My fault, won't happen again 8^).
>you might consider going back to ext2 for awhile, until reiserfs is
>really mature [1]. just because its a journaling filesystem doesn't
>mean you can't get fs corruption.
I might. I think I might also look into some others like xfs etc. As long
as I don't forget to pay my electric bill I don't really have to worry much
anyway ;-).
>[1] reiserfs does not work at all on big endian archetectures, that is
>not a mature filesystem in my book.
I seem to have run into the one big problem, the 'not quite there' tools to
repair said damage. The _only_ way to 'fix' the problems were to do a
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on /var. It warned me that this was extremely
dangerous and only to be used as a last desperate messure. But I was
already screwed and it was the only option I could see at the time :-(
thanks again,
jt
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