Re: repairing /

[thomas graichen <list-linux.sgi.xfs@spoiled.org>]

Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> At 13:04 8-2-2002 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>>Per the thread at
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=100754969025805&w=2 ,
>>*please* add a note to the XFS FAQ. It took me a while to discover that
>>what I need to do is simply not possible without an alternate root
>>device. I think that's very important to point out.

> Makes sense. I will mention something like this and the GRUB boot support.

maybe adding a link to my little miniroot system at

  http://people.spoiled.org/tgr/unix/miniroot/

would be good - it helped me already a few times for repairing or
moving xfs root filesystems, is easy to setup, adapt and use (i
even made one for the serial console) and maybe worth a look
as somekind of online-rescue disk ... only requirement: /boot should
be on an extra fs (best would be ext2 which should be no problem
because a /boot of say 64 or 128mb is checked very fast and it
might even be mounted ro)

t

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