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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg is empty!
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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.


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