Re: [MLUG] dead drive replacement

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/5/05, Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Does anybody know how I go about replacing a dead drive in my FC4 box.
> It was the drive that had the VAR partition on it.  I just got FC up and
> running when this happened and I realy do not want to reinstall.  I do
> have access to ghost and acronis.
>
> Dan

Does it work at all?  Is there anything in /var you need to recover?

I never like to suggest this, but if /var is hosed, the easiest
recovery is to reinstall, assuming /home and /usr/local are on their
own partition and won't be disturbed.  Tar up /etc so you don't have
to redo all the configuration.

On the other hand, if you can still read from /var, then just mv it
elsewhere in the filesystem:

/etc/init.d/syslog stop # Stop any process that might write to var

mkdir /var-tmp
mv /var/* /var-tmp
umount /var
mv /var-tmp/* /var # now /var is part of the / partition

(then comment out /var in /etc/fstab)

Regards,
Mark
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