Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> > No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte
> > for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup,
> > reformat, restore is the only safe fix.  
 
> If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what
> the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before
> rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it).......

Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the
contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive
on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process.

> Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it
> to CF and be done with these old ide drives.........

Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly,
especially if you put /var on it.


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Neil Bothwick

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