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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On the other hand, because I have reasonably good user backups |
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> (although no real system backups) right now if I bite the bullet and |
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> build the machine then when my wife gets it back it's hopefully going |
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> to be more reliable, wouldn't it? |
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> I'm thinking that maybe I just copy a little stuff off the box - /etc |
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> and the like - and then boot the machine with the Gentoo install CD or |
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> System Resuce CD and see what the drive is doing? |
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As a related idea I dug out an old copy of Spinrite which I'll run on |
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all the partitions just to see what it says. However if the problem is |
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currently 1 partition (/var) which is still mostly readable, could I |
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not just create a new var partition - the drive has space free - and |
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then copy important stuff from old var to new var, change fstab and |
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then basically just go on from there? |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |