On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:48:10PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > I have had some rather bad disk corrpution (laptop battery failed on > me I think). The easiest way for me to > fix it as far as I can see is to re-install as there are a few key > applications that don't work.. I have a root partition > and a /home partition. Only the /root partion is affected. I can > back up /etc which seems for the most part unaffected by the > corruption. > > Can anyone suggest the most painless way to do this. I can back up > /etc onto /home.
Have you tried running fsck on /root? If you describe the errors your getting someone might have an idea better than re-installing. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke