Re: Broken /var filesystem

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> David A. Cobb wrote:
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> > I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem.  Or, at least, fsck was 
> > going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass.  
> > It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests 
> > so.
> >    
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> Not really, it only says you can delete data from /var/cache.
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> > So, I re-initialized /var.
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> Welcome to a nearly endless world of pain. Where are your backups, BTW?
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Ah, yes.  Backups.  Waiting 'til I can afford a RW+DVD or some other 
suitably high-capacity device to make them onto.  :-!

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> > Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist?
> >    
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> /var/lib/dpkg/status (empty)
>  
If that doesn't work, I figure by tonight I will go back to my 
Woody-CD's and build up again from there.


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