On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900, you wrote: >if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed. >reinstall your system from scratch.
This is what I was afraid of. And yes, it's ALL gone :-(. I had gotten so used to the reliabiltiy of 'unstable' that I had neglected to make proper backups for quite some time. My fault, won't happen again 8^). >you might consider going back to ext2 for awhile, until reiserfs is >really mature [1]. just because its a journaling filesystem doesn't >mean you can't get fs corruption. I might. I think I might also look into some others like xfs etc. As long as I don't forget to pay my electric bill I don't really have to worry much anyway ;-). >[1] reiserfs does not work at all on big endian archetectures, that is >not a mature filesystem in my book. I seem to have run into the one big problem, the 'not quite there' tools to repair said damage. The _only_ way to 'fix' the problems were to do a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on /var. It warned me that this was extremely dangerous and only to be used as a last desperate messure. But I was already screwed and it was the only option I could see at the time :-( thanks again, jt
