Sridhar saw fit to inform LI that:
Phew ......
>$mail root < /sbin/dump /dev/hda9
> ...or something like that
> /* hda9 is my / partition of 2.5 GB */
In effect, you catted all the contents of your hard disk and mailed root
with it? Extremely efficient way to crash a system, I must say.
>Then I logged in as root and it said there was mail for me
>When I executed the command "mail" it gave all kinds of nonsense about
>errors about some inodes etc so I panicked and gave
You got what you asked for - a dump of your root partition. You should
have saved it to a file and used vi / pico to view it rather than mail
root with it.
>#df
>This said my / partition had 1.2 GB used but 0 MB free!!
I ~think~ df doesn't count space in your mailbox, am not sure.
> This is fairly long mail, but what's the probz. Should I reinstall
>or is there a way to get back the data, some of which are very important?
Considering you have multiple (/, /boot etc) partitions (rather than a /
and a swap partition) - I hope you also have a /usr. Try upgrading and see
what happens.
In any case, if you had <note past tense pls> anything on /dev/hda9 it's
gone - as effectively as if you'd applied amrutanjan for a
headache. (poye poche, poyinde, choligaachi, it's gone, gaayab ...)
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