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
