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Subject: RE: boot with dirty filesystem?
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> My question is there a way to force the machine to boot with a dirty
> filesystem, so that I can pull data from /etc to move to a new disk? 
> Barring that, is there still a procedure to force the system to boot,
> update the inodes with whatever information it can find, and mark the
> other files as unreadable?

Use -f to force the mount.  Depending on how bad the fs corruption is, you
may be able to get pretty much everything you need.


Jaime Bozza