On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:19 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> dd  over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card  that is plugged
> into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf
> socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work?

No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte
for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup,
reformat, restore is the only safe fix.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

To whom the gods destroy, they first teach Windows...

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