phorce1 2017-01-30 20:15:03
/etc /home both look OK. Sucks that the list of installed packages would have been in /var
phorce1 2017-01-30 20:18:34
currently looking for drives big enough to image the system (which is a 276G hardware RAID5) then run run testdisk or photorec. I have a bunch of 250G drives lying around {sigh again}
bla 2017-01-30 20:22:17
phorce1, I haven't heard the rest of the story but I hope you'd have a backup next time. :)
bla 2017-01-30 20:22:30
photorec... not sure how it will work for /var
bla 2017-01-30 20:23:03
userdel shouldn't be removing / to be honest. In any case.
bla 2017-01-30 20:23:53
I guess it should print warning or do nothing if the $HOME is not owned by the user.
phorce1 2017-01-30 20:26:30
bla: userdel -r tries to remove the users home directory. When I figure whay there was a user with / as home I'll probably write a bash wrapper that prevents that behavior it it turns out to be something we need.
contrapunctus 2017-01-30 20:30:56
o/
phorce1 2017-01-30 20:31:24
Since I don't seem to have a large disk on hand I'll probably have to run testdisk live. I can back up the still existing directories with tar since they will definitely be under 250G then try to recover /var/www and /var/lib/dpkg/status and do a clean install
contrapunctus 2017-01-30 20:32:03
How may I check the contents of partitions during the install? I try 'mkdir /media/something' then 'mount /dev/sda1 /media/something/' in the shell and it says "invalid argument"
