GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.
On 10/14/2010 11:59 AM, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 11:49 -0400, Bhaskar, K.S wrote: > > Thank you very much. With -f, fsck worked like a charm. (Confession: I > > didn't back the file system up first. Since jfs has been rock solid for > > me for years and is the only file system I ever use for data that is > > important to me, I thought I wasn't living too dangerously!) > > In the future I'd recommend at least backing up the directory containing > a known problem (in this case /etc). When fsck does need to fix > something, it has a tendency to throw away the directory and send all > the files to /lost+found/. In this case the directory was sane, but the > inode containing the file must have been the problem. [KSB] Fair enough! Actually, I do have some redundancy (paranoia) in my process. When I set up a computer, I always set it up with two alternate root partitions that I can boot into. If anything goes wrong with one (e.g., an upgrade gone awry), I can always use rsync (followed by a little editing, e.g., of /etc/fstab) from the other root to recover a partition. A spare root may be a few GB of overhead, but it does come in handy from time to time. Thanks again for your help, and for an excellent filesystem. Regards -- Bhaskar _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
