fre, 15.10.2004 kl. 17.40 skrev Bob Gustafson: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:49:29 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > >Urk... > > > >What you should have done was REMOUNTED / ro... unmounting root is an > >incredible stupid thing to do (and i have no clue why your box did not > >panic INSTANTLY...) > > Thanks very much for your reply. Suffice to say that I take my role as > tester seriously. I do tend to explore the fringes of Murphy's law though. > > I have my system up and running now. doing a 'mv / /old' preserved my old > system and I installed FC2-3 from CDs (this process is not quite ready for > prime time - will add some notes later). > > A 'yum update' which loaded in 642 updates last night worked pretty nicely. > It is loading a fresh batch of updates this morning as I write. > > I do have some configuration updates to make. Doing a 'mv /old/home/user1 > /home/user1' took care of my user configurations, but the /etc files may > not behave well if I did the same thing there.. Murphy has its limits. > > ---- > > I guess the best way to have cleaned up my root filesystem would would have > been to boot up from my other disk (RH9) and do e2fsck on it when it was > not part of a running system. The majority of newbies to Linux may not have > these extra resources though. > > ---- Thanks very much for your suggestions (below). They seem quite > reasonable. Perhaps you can add these to the 'what to do if things go very > wrong' part of the On line Linux documentation. > > BobG > I have never had to do it myself. Since you now have the hands-on experience, cant you do it? And what documentation are you talking about? > > > > >Well, you could always try the "single" boot argument - it should give > >you a root shell without you having to enter the root password. > > > >tor, 14.10.2004 kl. 06.18 skrev Bob Gustafson: > >> I did some things and then rebooted > >> > >> It went through the module/application stage of the reboot very quickly > >> (too quickly) and I now have > >> > >> Fedore Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) > >> Kernel 2.6.8-1.610smp on an i686 > >> > >> (none) login: > >> > >> I typed in all of the usual suspects (root, user1, ..), but none are known. > >> Even when I type in 'none', it doesn't know him either. > >> > >> What did I do? > >> > >> I was a bit annoyed that it was wanting me to do an 'e2fsck'. A couple of > >> days ago, I was able to 'umount /boot' and do '/sbin/e2fsck -p /dev/sda1' > >> and similar on all of the partitions except '/'. Doing 'umount /' was not > >> successful (busy, busy) and I could not do e2fsck without umounting that > >> partition. > >> > >> However, there was a lazy umount option 'umount -l /' > >> > >> This completed fine - no busy busy complaints. > >> > >> But, when I went to do '/sbin/e2fsck -p /dev/sda2' on the '/' partition - > >> it still said it was mounted and that terrible things would happen if I > >> continued. > >> > >> Can you imagine that? I already had 'umount'ed it, lazy whatever. So I went > >> ahead and did the e2fsck. > >> > >> And, terrible things did happen. > >> > >> ----- > >> > >> I really did need to download the latest FC2 test release iso disks - and > >> do the i2o driver installs... > > > >-- > >fedora-devel-list mailing list > >fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
