Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> On the other hand, because I have reasonably good user backups
> (although no real system backups) right now if I bite the bullet and
> build the machine then when my wife gets it back it's hopefully going
> to be more reliable, wouldn't it?
>
> I'm thinking that maybe I just copy a little stuff off the box - /etc
> and the like - and then boot the machine with the Gentoo install CD or
> System Resuce CD and see what the drive is doing?
>
<SNIP>

As a related idea I dug out an old copy of Spinrite which I'll run on
all the partitions just to see what it says. However if the problem is
currently 1 partition (/var) which is still mostly readable, could I
not just create a new var partition - the drive has space free - and
then copy important stuff from old var to new var, change fstab and
then basically just go on from there?

Cheers,
Mark