From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 18:03:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CDC16A415 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:03:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from ketralnis.com (melchoir.ketralnis.com [68.183.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD6443D72 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:03:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from [192.168.1.61] (pix.xythos.com [64.154.218.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by ketralnis.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kA1I38E5067458 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <1162403774.4866.27.camel@ugly> References: <1162399232.4866.25.camel@ugly> <4548D3DC.3060902@orchid.homeunix.org> <1162403774.4866.27.camel@ugly> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David King Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:02:52 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Subject: Re: /var corrupted..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:03:16 -0000 > Ok... good tip thanks. That would definitely leave my db/pkg out of > whack. I wonder if a 'portupgrade -af' would fix that up? I doubt it. How would portupgrade know what is installed (to which -a applies) without a package database? > I'll wait for others to weigh in as well on option 1 before going this > way. > > Thanks. > >> >> The downside of this (option 2) is you'll loose some important >> information about your system, /var/db/pkg comes first to my mind. If >> you don't have any backups try to recover anything you can first. >> Good >> luck! >> >>> Thanks, >>> Eric >> >> HTH, >> >> Karol >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"