/var/db/pkg is empty!

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Mon Mar 13 10:43:47 UTC 2006


On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:33:47PM -0600 I heard the voice of
David J Brooks, and lo! it spake thus:
> I'm not sure how it happened, but my /var partition was scrambled
> pretty badly, and now my /var/dbpkg and /var/db/ports directories
> are empty...

If fsck cleaned it up, the files may all be hiding in lost+found,
needing only some amount {small..massive} of manual fiddling to
recover.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
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