Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:13:42 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slight emergency here... Message-ID: <20071029161342.GE11142@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > > I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. > Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair > the damage. > > At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to > elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy > everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command. > > I'll do same while i'm at it with /usr/home -> home, if that is > advisable. tao2 has been rebooting automatically in an infinite > loop for about .5 hour. I managed to go single-user. Time to > ask peoples' suggestions. On your system, is /var a separate filesystem (partition) or is it just a directory? If it is a filesystem, then use dump(8). If it is just a directory, use tar. ////jerry > > gary > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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