what command did you use to copy your directories cp -r or cp -rd ..??
Philippe
"M. Neidorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> Well, I guess it happens to us all. Now its my turn. I've made the system
> unbootable by accident and I'd like to get it back working. Here's what
> happened:
>
> Did an update from 5.2 to 6.2.
> Found that the / file system filled (the installer went into the slack
> space reserved for /)
> Couldn't start X in any form (no room on /tmp)
>
> cp'd /tmp to /usr/local/tmp (/usr/local is a different partition). (I of
> course verified that everything was in /usr/local/tmp)
> mv'd /tmp to /xtmp just to save it (sanity).
> made a symlink from /usr/local/tmp to /tmp.
>
> All seemed OK.
> rm'd the /xtmp directory.
>
> verified that /tmp exists and is a link to /usr/local/tmp
>
> Tried to startx again and got the message that there was not enough free
> space on /root. (darn)
>
> OK, here's where things get messed up.
>
> I followed the same set of steps to cp /bin to /usr/local/binroot , mv /bin
> to /xbin and make a symlink between /usr/local/binroot and /bin.
>
> Once I completed these steps, whenever I try to run a command such as 'ls',
> I get a message that there the depth of symlinks has been exceeded. I
> tried to rm the symlink to no avail.
>
> Things started to go from bad to worse as the HDD started thrashing for no
> apparent reason.
>
> I shutdown (could not execute some commands in the shutdown
> script. Shutdown didn't complete)
>
> I tried to restart in single user mode but got the following message which
> was repeated 6 times--once for each ID 1-6:
>
> INIT: Id 1 respawing too fast. Waiting for 5 minutes
>
> 5 minutes later the same set of 6 messages appears. Bottom line is that I
> can't seem to boot the system in order to fix the system.
>
> Can anyone help me get the system back up?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Mark
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