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Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Hello
> 
>       At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 - 
> rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today. This 
> is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attempts to mount it fail 
> with bad superblock messages. As a result, all network and many other system 
> commands (awk, etc.) are inaccessible.
> 
> Now, is there a live CD that can be used to run the machine so that the users 
> can at least copy over their data ? I think a reinstall is indicated.

www.grml.org - it has OpenAFS and krb5 built in.

> The two partitions housing /vicepa and /vicepb are not affected. Is there a 
> way to retrieve data directly from the hard disks ?

yeah, sure, there are a lots of ways...

> Thanks.

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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