On Tuesday 22 August 2006 13:18, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > ps, I'm nearly ready to reinstall (4th time, but first since July 4). > Can I reinstall w/o formatting and save my home, web setup and added > utilities under / ??? Is that considered an upgrade?
If I were facing the same problem I'd probably reinstall to get the system running again. I'd also try hard to avoid repeating whatever my last serious mistake was. ;-) YMMV, of course... it probably *is* recoverable. Question is, how much time are you willing to invest in that process? If you have space on sdb6 (/home) to store copies of your current /etc and /srv (under ~/.etc and ~/.srv,) you can omit sdb6 and sdb7 from the installation process and install the entire system on /dev/sdb5. Don't forget to erase the contents of sdb5 by hand, first, to ensure you're starting from a 'clean slate.' You can then rename the newly created /home and /srv directories (to /.home and /.srv,) restore the relevant lines from your original fstab (backup the newly created fstab for safe-keeping) and mount the original /home and /srv dedicated partitions. You'll have to 'hunt and peck' to compare/massage /etc to match the contents of ~/.etc, as needed. However, if and when it 'blows up' again, you can always revert back to the just-installed configuration and try restoring things one at a time. Good luck! Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
