[CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Billy Davis
We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' instead of 'tar cvf /dev/sdb filename'. /dev/sda is our main (boot/root/apps)

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread m . roth
Billy Davis wrote: We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' instead of 'tar cvf /dev/sdb filename'. /dev/sda is our main

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Billy Davis
On 1/5/2012 11:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Billy Davis wrote: We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' instead of 'tar

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread m . roth
Billy Davis wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Billy Davis wrote: We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 15:33 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map Billy Davis wrote: On 1/5/2012 11:20 AM