Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > > and drop them i

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real > > why did you

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need to back them up,

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:35:23PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! > > > > I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still really > > pissed off that I bought a 10gig 7200 rp

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! > > I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still really > pissed off that I bought a 10gig 7200 rpm seagate about 3 days before a big > thread in here on how unreliable sea

Re[2]: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:48:59 -0900 Ethan Benson > wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:58:36PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just > > doing > > some simple scans of the hard disc and reiserfs found some bugs. It then > > comp

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:58:36PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just doing > some simple scans of the hard disc and reiserfs found some bugs. It then > completely wiped /var. /var/lib/dpkg was screwed (along with everything else

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900 Ethan Benson > wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:05:19PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it > > was that or t

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
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 pr

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:55:26 +1100, you wrote: >When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more >detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you >upgrade from? What versions of the reiserfs-utils did you move between? Not really sured why/what happened.

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:05:19PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it > was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck > managed

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread iehrenwald
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Has anyone else experienced problems with their reiserfs partitions > after upgrading to 2.4.2? All systems a-go on this box. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux solvent 2.4.2 #3 SMP Sat Feb 24 21:37:46 EST 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mou

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Travis wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? > I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you upgrade

Reconstructing Var?

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck managed to fix everything except for /var which was pretty well hosed. So I