Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:58:43 -0600 From: tech@nano.net To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060926055737.0302bd00@nano.net> In-Reply-To: <200609261121.k8QBLRSP041907@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20060925123108.03038af0@nano.net> <200609261121.k8QBLRSP041907@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Thanks! And thanks for the sh recommendation, that easier than what I was
going to do...
At 05:21 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
>tech@nano.net wrote:
> > I've got a /usr partition with some problems. During boot it fails and
> I'm
> > prompted to run fsck manually. I do so and when fsck has finished it asks
> > me to run it again, and again, and again...
>
>If that happens, I would assume that the disk is dying. Do
>not try to fsck it, because it will probably make it worse.
>Instead, use "dd if=/dev... of=... conv=noerror,sync" to copy
>the disk to a safe place (i.e. other disk of same size or
>larger). Then run fsck there.
>
> > And now for something completely different.... If I can't get the /usr
> > partition to work is there any way to recreate the user directories from
> > the password file? The contents will be lost but nobody uses their folder
> > anyway, I just need all the /usr/home folders created... I could write a
> > script, but I thought I'd check first to see if something already
> exists.......
>
>That's trivial. In /bin/sh syntax:
>
># cd /home
># awk -F: '$3>999{print $1}' /etc/passwd | xargs mkdir
># for i in *; do chown $i:$i $i; done
>
>That will create home directories for all users whose UID
>is greater than 999.
>
>Best regards
> Oliver
>
>
>--
>Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing
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>
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> -- Bertrand Meyer
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