Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

[Hal Martin <hal.martin@gmail.com>]

If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving
IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's
been solid for the entire time.

Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on
another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the Gentoo one.

-Hal

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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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