From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 11: 1:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B8837B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDJ0rO03401 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:00:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200112131900.fBDJ0rO03401@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: keeping a system in use during a complete rebuild? From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:00:53 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am becoming increasingly suspicious that my installation took some damage while the mainboard was failing. I have seen, among other things, log files with garbage characters, as well as the general strange behavior. I cannot put my system aside for a couple of days to rebuild, due to several deadlines this week. What I'm contemplating is something along the lines of moving /usr to /usr2, adding /usr2 to my paths as a user but not as root, and trying to recompile every last line on the machine, and every single port. (I currently have inconsisencies from files that are present without ports, files overwritten by other ports, etc.) Is this doable? will I regret it? hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message