On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:54:01 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've also had some issues with reiserfs and have always sticked to ext3 > ever since. I guess the advantages of reiserfs don't warrant experiments > on important data. ext3 is rock solid on debian. YMMV. Well, I had a dodgy disk too. I switched the formatting of it to ext2 for now (switching to ext3 now is trivial). I pulled out some of my remaining hair :), and managed to fix the postfix issue. after a couple of problems (ended up having to run postfix check a number of times, make sure all the perms were correct, and comment out a few lines in the postfix script relating to usr/lib/zoneinfo). > /var has all variable data of your system except configuration files. > Ie. the data on /var depends on your system and cannot be just copied > from ubuntu. I figured as much. log files and such are trivial, they'll be written over. Postfix now seems to work OK. I now need to recover mysql (as I only use it for Amarok, it should be easy enough to rebuild that database), and get the dpkg fixed. > For some help to get from here, see > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-recover-status > and the part about recovering from lost /var further down that page. I took a look at that page, and the link for "var.tar.gz" seems to point to a link that doesn't contain that content. The two tar files on the site aren't what is expected. > snapshots of /etc and recovering the package selection data from /etc/ > and /usr/share/doc. What I'll probably end up having to do is to reinstall from latest etch. OTOH, how to recover the package selection data? I gather that (more or less) every file in /usr/share/doc translates somehow into a debian package, right? > Johannes -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
