slight emergency here...

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:13:42PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > 	Guys,
> > 
> > 
> > 	I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes.
> > 	Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair
> > 	the damage.
> > 
> > 	At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to
> > 	elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy
> > 	everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command. 
> > 
> > 	I'll do same while i'm at it  with /usr/home  -> home, if that is
> > 	advisable.  tao2 has been rebooting automatically in an infinite 
> > 	loop for about .5 hour.   I managed to  go single-user.  Time to 
> > 	ask peoples' suggestions.
> 
> On your system, is /var a separate filesystem (partition) or is
> it just a directory?
> 
> If it is a filesystem, then use dump(8).
> If it is just a directory, use tar.
> 
> ////jerry


	Yeah, it wasn;t "cpio|tar" by (tar)|(tar) to copy everything,
	symlinks included.  I moved /usr/home to /home, &c, but did
	*something* that blew away my Gnome greeting-app.  ....

	gary


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