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mtombs
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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: Lost var |
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Hi
I've just recovered from some filesystem corruption. Don't really know what happened, and its not that important right now. The problem I have now is that parts of my filesystem have gone, most notably nearly all of /var, and bits of /lib. /usr and /opt seem to be fine, but its a little hard to be really sure.
As portage keeps its database of what I have installed in /var, it no longer knows that I have nearly all of a system installed and wants to install it all again. Also the bits of /lib that have gone mean that none of the rc scripts work.
Anybody got any smart ideas of how I can avoid re-compiling the whole system?
thanks
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moocha
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: Lost var |
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| mtombs wrote: | Hi
I've just recovered from some filesystem corruption. Don't really know what happened, and its not that important right now. The problem I have now is that parts of my filesystem have gone, most notably nearly all of /var, and bits of /lib. /usr and /opt seem to be fine, but its a little hard to be really sure.
As portage keeps its database of what I have installed in /var, it no longer knows that I have nearly all of a system installed and wants to install it all again. Also the bits of /lib that have gone mean that none of the rc scripts work.
Anybody got any smart ideas of how I can avoid re-compiling the whole system?
thanks
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https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-81420.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-507583.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-495486.html
and 194 more. But don't count on magic. If you don't have a backup, you *will* have to reinstall.
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tomk
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Duplicate Threads, please see the topics mentinoed by moocha.
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