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If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving |
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IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's |
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been solid for the entire time. |
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Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on |
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another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the Gentoo one. |
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-Hal |
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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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>>> No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte |
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>>> for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, |
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>>> reformat, restore is the only safe fix. |
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>> If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what |
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>> the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before |
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>> rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)....... |
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> Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the |
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> contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive |
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> on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. |
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>> Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it |
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>> to CF and be done with these old ide drives......... |
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> Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, |
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> especially if you put /var on it. |
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