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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:38:33
Message-Id: 20080123193742.163c6d6d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error by James
1 On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:19 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
2
3 > dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged
4 > into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf
5 > socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work?
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7 No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte
8 for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup,
9 reformat, restore is the only safe fix.
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13 Neil Bothwick
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15 To whom the gods destroy, they first teach Windows...

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