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Re: Reconstructing Var?



On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:58:36PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote:

> Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just doing
> some simple scans of the hard disc and reiserfs found some bugs. It then
> completely wiped /var. /var/lib/dpkg was screwed (along with everything else
> in /var) so I was reduced to reinstalling. Seeing as I track woody, and have
> potato disks and a 56k modem connection, it has taken some time to get back
> to normal.
> 
> Sorry - no choice but to reinstall from scratch.

/usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\!

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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