Hi Y'all, In a moment of extreme brain-farting, I just royally fscked up my / partition (literally--ran fsck with no arguments on a mounted filesystem). The system isn't in production use yet, so it's not a horrible emergency, but I do stand to lose quite a bit of perl scripting work if I can't recover the info.. So.. Here's what went down:
I fsck'ed and "continued anyway". Then, moments later, tried to man something, man - command not found. Uh-oh. /sbin/shutdown was still found (along with su, fortunately, because I had exited), so I /sbin/shutdown -r now and ran to watch the system messages on the local terminal.. And it was spewing forth invalid inode messages and the ominous-sounding "journal aborted." So after it became fairly apparent that nothing good was going to come of that, I hit Reset. Now, "label '/' not found" pops up from makedevfs, or something like that, and it won't boot (kernel panics). So obviously I've done a Very Bad Thing (TM). Is there any way to Save My Butt (TM) or am I resigned to reformatting and reinstalling, and just losing the little bit of not-backed-up data that was there? Again, it's not a production machine yet, so it's really just an avoid-the-royal-PITA factor, but nonetheless, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, ~Brian Henning ---------------- Brian A. Henning Strutmasters.com 866.597.2397 ---------------- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
