On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by
doing a backup, going single-user, unmount the partition, remake the
filesystem, mount it, and restore the backup, then shutdown back to
multi-user.
You can do the same thing with / if you boot off a live CD. I've
done plenty of dump/restore operations after booting a live CD or
even a boot/root floppy...
In some ways / is easier because it's usually not very big, unless
you've installed everything into it. With other filesystems just
finding somewhere to put the backup is often difficult. I've been
known to resort to piping the output of dump over an 8-bit-clean SSH
connection to another system, and 'cat'ing it to a file on the other
end. :)
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