Re: Oops, no more /usr.

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Thomas Adam wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote:
>  
>
> > 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If 
> > so, are there any other directories I should do the same to?
> >    
>
> Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made
> modifications, you'd have done so via local files under $HOME.
>
>  
I don't understand this, but _I_'d backup /etc and some sections of 
/var. With your recent history, to CD:-)

> > 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr?  For 
> > example, kernel-sources* has files placed in /usr, but kernel-image* do not.
> >    
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall install
>
> Should do it for you.
>  

Sounds cute. Maybe you'll want this too:
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
then
COLUMNS=200 etc

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Cheers
John

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