Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Rishi Chopra <idfubar@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstalling And /usr Message-ID: <20040628170528.67908.qmail@web52107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040622032432.GD86471@dan.emsphone.com>
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--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 21), Rishi Chopra said:
> > What is the effect on the /usr partition when
> reinstalling over an
> > installation?
> >
> > I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd
> like to simply
> > reinstall with the same partition/slice values -
> will my /usr
> > partition and the data therein still be accessible
> after
> > reinstallation?
>
> Sure, except anything you may have changed in
> /usr/{bin,sbin,share,lib,libexec} will get
> overwritten. Make sure you
> elect not to newfs any of your filesytems :) In
> fact, if you know your
> exact mbr info, you should be able to boot the
> install floppy, go to
> the partition editor, set it up, write, reboot, and
> you're done.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@allantgroup.com
>
>
I certainly appreciate the good advice, but I could
use a little more information.
I'm not really worried about saving the system and the
MBR, just my /usr/home directory. Can I install the
system again (from floppies) without the inode chain
getting messed up and the /usr/home directory becoming
invisible? I would like to know if I can just
reinstall over the original installation much like a
Windows fix; the inode error that I'm getting now
prevents /bin/sh from loading and may have made the
system unsalvageable.
=====
Rishi Chopra
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra
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