lost part of my "/usr/local"-filesystem - debian(woody)

From: F. Kappen (kappen_at_tfh-berlin.de)
Date: 08/14/03 

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:22:50 +0200

Hi all,

I inadvertently deleted part of my "/usr/local"-filesystem doing a "rm
-r /usr/local". Although I stopped the command immediately when I
noticed my fault, I lost about 90 Mb of the filesystem. Among others
were the directoies:

   bin, games, include, lib, lost+found, man, sbin, share

My system is running, but I worry about the loss of the
"lost+found"-directory. Is this critical? And if so, is there a way to
repair it? Unfortunately I haven't made a backup yet, so I cannot
restore things from a backup-medium.

Considering the other lost directories, I think that is not so harmful
and I can refill them occasionally whenever an application is missing
a needed file. But perhaps somebodey can tell me which applcations put
their files by default in one of the above mentioned directories.

Thank you in advance
Friedhelm

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