On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > > 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. > If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what > the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before > rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it).......
Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. > Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it > to CF and be done with these old ide drives......... Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, especially if you put /var on it. -- Neil Bothwick New Intel opcode #007 PUKE: Put unmeaningful keywords everywhere
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