On May 29, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
Leland Lucius' E2SH utility has saved my bacon more than once. From CMS, you can link to the root minidisk and issue all manner of shell commands, plus the all-important xedit command! Lets you edit your favorite file, including /etc/fstab, with your favorite editor.
The major problem with the use of this tool, in this situation, is that if you use it on an EXT3 file system which has not been shut down cleanly, you have about a one in two chance of causing even more extensive damage to the filesystem once Linux IPLs and replays the filesystem journal. There's not even anything you can do to "be careful" and improve your odds. E2SH + uncleanly unmounted EXT3 = danger. If the filesystem is EXT2 or was cleanly unmounted, it works great, effectively 100% of the time. ok bear ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
