Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:43:41 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg is empty! Message-ID: <20060313104341.GA58250@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <200603122133.47804.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <17428.48090.416936.142264@roam.psg.com> <200603122035.10272.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <17428.56461.451976.293083@roam.psg.com> <200603122133.47804.daeg@houston.rr.com>
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0600 I heard the voice of
David J Brooks, and lo! it spake thus:
> I'm not sure how it happened, but my /var partition was scrambled
> pretty badly, and now my /var/dbpkg and /var/db/ports directories
> are empty...
If fsck cleaned it up, the files may all be hiding in lost+found,
needing only some amount {small..massive} of manual fiddling to
recover.
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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