6 May
2004
6 May
'04
3:20 p.m.
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:42:43PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
I managed to get my system back (though I'm pretty
sure it's not in good
order). My file system was a total mess. There were around 2000 items in
/lost+found. sed, tar, and vi (at least) were completely missing. man
was rsync. My dpkg/apt database was totally hosed. Much of what should
have been symlinks under /etc/alternatives/ was some sort of data file.
And so on, and so on ...
Eeeyuck. That sounds like what happened to me when a hardware
failure (bad RAM) totally hosed my ext2 filesystem a few years back.
The inodes were basically randomized.
Glad you got the important stuff back!
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com