On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> 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
