From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl5F8-0007UH-Fa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AF5BE0972; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f178.google.com (mail-pz0-f178.google.com [209.85.222.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0017E0972 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk8 with SMTP id 8so293743pzk.11 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:48:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=g2zjFQS46Wy7MkoSjBCNWdgCGxj7bBuM8YIvES6Aa2A=; b=LSfJUghc6wZprQoIBM0nnz/j4XHW8mEFZm0FVyAFuUTv8aMdGgKT8JArbswXIZleOg dqUyaeCVSuwVsFXAjvrRKgqt605aZzJ4M+kqgWu3NQyPiTuSuEqs8i57srVR1JKiiEZC 4klJewXDf0rUaOMKiph9q9kJZ53a8EeYceQ18= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ZycWxSbdtHoZzScF3eTBp19dRNTk5lDz6s3PVAjCclKmTodQ4s1MQy/8f/P8WCZpLs Hy8I6+O/5/zJMjEShaE+1pJqed82XUWzAj7rqts+25szUhrrA1C+KO3Dw000xugwvecF JAvBqDmCTHNxk9lMPAZGBS6Sqs7M08TUtJdjQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.249.29 with SMTP id w29mr406056wfh.163.1267210130463; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:48:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002261026p4e5d1c22ucc0725511ec400e6@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002251933s6a250b99v607c97e09f41d4fe@mail.gmail.com> <201002261827.27513.wonko@wonkology.org> <5bdc1c8b1002260951l7cf3fd77g24a966cf9b399b5c@mail.gmail.com> <201002261859.00344.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <5bdc1c8b1002261026p4e5d1c22ucc0725511ec400e6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:48:50 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1002261048h58c62880l2880566b3ff91bfd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6f3a0c92-6660-4ecb-8fb3-da8ac12506ce X-Archives-Hash: 2462fe062f6b47140350b2097f5d878f On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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? > 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