Thanks to everyone for ideas! Out of cussedness, I dug enough to figure
out how to get at the disk partitions from the initramfs environment.
The details of the procedure depend on your initramfs environment and
disk configuration, but the pattern is simple enough that having seen an
example, you
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
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
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
On 3/5/2021 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
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_repair can't operate
on a partition that's mount
