Yes, that does, the shell it dropped me to just confused me a little. (different prompt) so I panicked. (I was worried I could really bugger something) once I figured out I had access to the regular shell, I just commented out the LABEL line for /home in /etc/fstab. Booted great, I'll move things around as per your instructions when I get a new HD.
Thank-you for the quick response Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:22 PM To: CLUG TALK Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Dead Hard drive - Need Help! If memory serves me correctly, you should be able to use fdisk to make a new partition on some drive, then use mkfs to create the filesystem of choice. On ext2/3 filesystems you can use the e2label program to give the new partition a label of /home. You then need to edit the /etc/fstab and either include the /home label in place of the previous device name that was mounted as /home, or just put in the new device name (use fdisk -l to get the new device name). Then when you reboot it should mount the new /home partition to /home. Hope that helps, Jesse On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:14, rwtoole wrote: > All, > > Just had one of the hard drives in my Redhat 8.0 box die. No question, > its dead Jim. :( (Stupid Fujitsu junk, I'm glad they quit making desktop > HDs) > > Trouble is, this is the drive where /home was mounted, and it drops me > to a shell right after the file system check. > > This is the first time I have had to recover from a dead HD under Linux, > and so... Help! > > My question is, how do I make a new /home folder from this shell it puts > me into, and scrub the Fush*tsu from fstab? So it will boot? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rob. -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
