Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:45 PM 10/28/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]: }At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to }elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:03:06AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage.

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:13:42PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the

slight emergency here...

2007-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var,

What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. Oops. If fsck can't fix it, that's not good. Have you tried

{Disarmed} Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:02 PM 10/28/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate,

Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-28 Thread Jon Hamilton
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]: } At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to } elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy } everything back?? I've forgotten the cpio magic command. } } The

Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]: }At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to }elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them mkdir /var and copy }everything back??