From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 18:52:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B70B16A418 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CF913C4B5 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:52:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9THOpoI014634; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l9THOo8R014619; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:24:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:24:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20071029172450.GC32303@thought.org> References: <20071028215454.GA52631@thought.org> <20071029161342.GE11142@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071029161342.GE11142@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: slight emergency here... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:52:19 -0000 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 damage. > > > > 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. > > > > I'll do same while i'm at it with /usr/home -> home, if that is > > advisable. tao2 has been rebooting automatically in an infinite > > loop for about .5 hour. I managed to go single-user. Time to > > ask peoples' suggestions. > > On your system, is /var a separate filesystem (partition) or is > it just a directory? > > If it is a filesystem, then use dump(8). > If it is just a directory, use tar. > > ////jerry Yeah, it wasn;t "cpio|tar" by (tar)|(tar) to copy everything, symlinks included. I moved /usr/home to /home, &c, but did *something* that blew away my Gnome greeting-app. .... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org