Re: /var/lib nuked! Is recovery possible?
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:35:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Depending on what you had on your system, you could be in a middlin, or
> a heap, of pain. /var/lib is largely stateful data, which is to say,
> it's particular to your system. OTOH, there's a lot of stuff under it
> (e.g.: ./apt/) which is essentially regenerated as your system grows.
> Losing /var/lib/postgress might hurt more.
/var/lib/dpkg, too. It's pretty hard to recover from that if you don't
have backups, although you may well find a copy of /var/lib/dpkg/status
lying around in /var/backups. You could use that to at least recover
information about package states.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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