On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:05:19PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it > was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck > managed to fix everything except for /var which was pretty well hosed. So I > had to dpkg -X the older version of reiserutils and install it manually. > Then a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on var fixed the problem, but as expected > nuked _everything_ on the partition. So is there anything easier than > manually creating/touching files as needed for syslogd, dpkg, gdm, etc. > etc.?
if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed. reinstall your system from scratch. you might consider going back to ext2 for awhile, until reiserfs is really mature [1]. just because its a journaling filesystem doesn't mean you can't get fs corruption. [1] reiserfs does not work at all on big endian archetectures, that is not a mature filesystem in my book. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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