On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:29:15AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:31:07PM +0000, Jay Barbee wrote: > > > > I did not want it installed, I prefer the sym-links myself aswell. All > > seems > > normal now that it is removed. I guess I will know when it is time to > > reboot > > (hopefully in another 93 days <g>). > > Somewhat unrelated, but worth noting in this context: > > I had once my whole /etc directory disappear into lost+found.
I hate it when that happens > After booting > from a rescue disk and fixing about three files (passwd, login.defs and > something I don't remember), I was able to boot in single user mode and fix > the system. ahh yes..been there and done that...always FUN. > What I want to say is, even if the symlinks would be missing, the system > would still be able to boot in single user mode (maybe with only partly > support for certain hardware/partitions etc). well that depends on the problem..the fil;esystem corruption that I saw was unfixable. even fsck couldn't save it. It was bad...I could acess files (sorta) and create files (which got their data promptly corrupted) but I couldn't ever delete files. (it would try and fail) (I made tarballs and sent them off to a win95 machine on an SMB share all of them had corrupt data...only 2 of them could I get any useable data from at all) as always the moral is...backup, backup, backup (but yes 90% of the time you can restore using lost+found and all the cool neat tricks) Of course... THEN my hardware startedto go bad...but thats another story -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
