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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:02:52 -0800
From:      David King <dking@ketralnis.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var corrupted.....
Message-ID:  <D2F90390-1F15-4F92-A8B8-D4C402047665@ketralnis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1162403774.4866.27.camel@ugly>
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> Ok... good tip thanks.  That would definitely leave my db/pkg out of
> whack.  I wonder if a 'portupgrade -af' would fix that up?

I doubt it. How would portupgrade know what is installed (to which -a  
applies) without a package database?



> I'll wait for others to weigh in as well on option 1 before going this
> way.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> The downside of this (option 2) is you'll loose some important
>> information about your system, /var/db/pkg comes first to my mind. If
>> you don't have any backups try to recover anything you can first.  
>> Good
>> luck!
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Karol
>>
>
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