Re: just deleted 11 144 files!
First question is this a home system?
Anyway what did you lose?
You can edit /var/lib/dpkg/STATUS to force apt to reinstall deb packages you wacked.
I currently us this trick along with aide to get apt to reinstall any packages I see corrupted.
-Tim.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:27:06 -0800
>on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:48:41PM -0500, ae roy (ae.roy@operamail.com) wrote:
>
>> Just noticed that I'm missing quit a lot of files.. Actually 11 144 of
>> them! Must have done one of those famous 'rm -rf *' which I
>> indiscriminatly do all the time (not anymoe) in the wrong place.
>
><...
>
>> Any tips?
>>
>> And don't mention BACKUP!!!
>
>I'll mention it. Let this be your lesson. Further tips:
>
>There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at:
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
>
>Peace.
>
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