Re: [Discuss] Running things from initramfs

2021-03-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 3/5/21 9:07 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: Here's a messy problem. I suspect the answer is simple, but obscure: I have an Oracle Linux (a Red Hat derivative) computer and I'd like to run "xfs_repair /dev/mapper/ol-root". The problem of course is that partition is the root partition and xfs_re

Re: [Discuss] Running things from initramfs

2021-03-06 Thread Dan Ritter
grg wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > > I have an Oracle Linux (a Red Hat derivative) computer and I'd like to > > run "xfs_repair /dev/mapper/ol-root". The problem of course > > is that partition is the root partition and xfs_repair can't operate > > on a

Re: [Discuss] Running things from initramfs

2021-03-06 Thread grg
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The problem is that this environment is not at all set up, and even > /dev is nearly empty. There is an xfs_repair binary, so I figure if I > could just get /dev/mapper/ol-root set up correctly, I could > repair it. There is an "lv