Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've done this. The problem is stopping fsck before it starts throwing > away files. Once you stop fsck, you need to do a 'mount -f ...', > rename lost+found to something else, unmount the filesystem and > start lost+found again. This I just tried and

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2004-Aug-11 09:58:21 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:54:35PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote.. >> On Wed, 2004-Aug-11 08:17:39 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: >> >* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]: >> >> I was hoping for some option in fsck to

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:54:35PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote.. > On Wed, 2004-Aug-11 08:17:39 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > >* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]: > >> I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found > >> directory on another dev

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2004-Aug-11 08:17:39 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: >* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]: >> I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found >> directory on another device, but no such luck. This isn't possible - all fsck does is to creat

Re: fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-10 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-10 23:52 -0400]: > I was hoping for some option in fsck to allow an alternate lost+found > directory on another device, but no such luck. Is there anything else > that I'm overlooking? I'm willing to try anything since I'm doing all > this on a jun

fsck and lost+found space

2004-08-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've worked through most of the problems I had with trying to recover some data from a dd image of a wrecked filesystem. Thanks very much to everyone that helped me out with the basics and with the vnconfig stuff to mount it. Right now I'm working on another copy of this same image, and I co