From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OOEPM-0007lm-LT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:29:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A8E8E0B5B; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57679E0B5B for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0L4000BYROOCIPE0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,415,1272837600"; d="scan'208";a="61370839" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o5EIT0IS013185 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 3B3FA1079; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:29:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <201006142024.24031.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Message-id: References: <201006142024.24031.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0d17ed1e-bd9d-4b09-857b-c3d216fb511b X-Archives-Hash: e1df368b8f4db96a2114c99ebf230029 On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. >> Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. >> But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have >> binary build-pkgs. >> What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant >> data on the root partition? >> >> Many thanks for a hint, >> Helmut. > > if /var/db survived, you can grep for /bin /lib /sbin etc in /var/db and > install the packages hit. Thanks, but unfortunately /var was on the root partition. So, I have to emerge -k --update @world @system . Helmut.