On 5/14/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I meant to execute 'rm -rf var' but I hit 'rm -rf /var' > instead. I realized my mistake after about 6 or 7 seconds when it was > taking too long and I hit Ctrl+C. Everything looks OK, but something > must be gone. What would you guys do in this situation?
Restore from a backup? :-) As you are posting here, I guess that's not an option. You are probably missing the big directories /var/db and /var/tmp. /var/db is (at least it seems) where information about each emerged package lies. I'm not sure which trouble you will pass without those. Perhaps someone may enlighten you more than I. /var/tmp is where portage compiles packages, and can be safely deleted. I don't know about the directory structure though. Perhaps reemerging some packages like baselayout would reconstruct them. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
