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Re: broken dpkg status



On Jo, 14 iul 11, 11:44:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived
> to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never
> thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!

Just for the archives: /var is not transient, but variable data. 
Transient would be the new /run and /tmp, which is why they can be put 
on tmpfs ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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