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

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/14/03

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    "F. Kappen" wrote:
    >
    > 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?

    'mkdir lost+found' maybe?

    > 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.

    On a Debian system, all .deb packages should normally put themselves in
    /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. The only thing that you're likely to find in
    /usr/local/bin are programs from other sources (e.g., programs you've
    tarballs). Unfortunately, this makes it harder to recover without a
    backup, unless you know what you've downloaded and installed there.


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