[Gllug] Terrible weekend

[Tethys]

Alain Williams writes:

>I do, however, take the occasional snapshot of the RFS & /usr.

Huh? Whatever for? /usr is the absolute last thing that should need
backing up. For a start, it should never really change (and IMHO it
should generally be mounted readonly). Secondly, it's managed by the
system's package manager, the details of which are usually on /var.
So unless you're backing that up as well, restoring /usr would probably
be either out of sync with the package manager, or totally unmanaged.
You'd be better off reinstalling. The OS is essentially disposable
anyway in most cases (and the FHS compliance of modern distributions
helps greatly here).

Tet
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