On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:51:31PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > > yes, accept in this case it looks as if /sbin/xfsrestore would have > fixed my / quickly and easily, however it was easier to rebuild the os > than to get xfsrestore on a running xfs compatible rescue image. > > In retrospect, I think it makes good sense to keep fs repair tools > on both /sbin and /usr/sbin no need to link -s /usr/sbin/xfsrestore > /sbin/xfsrestore when cp can save your arse. no that makes no sense at all, if / is hosed your box won't boot, if you don't have a rescue disk with xfs_repair (or whatever fsck goes with the filesystem your using) your a loon. xfsrestore would not have helped you anyway, unless you had a dump of / handy. xfs_repair has no symlinks in /usr (neither should dump/restore, Nate just did that because his original packages were broken and put them in /usr, he just didn't want to break anyones scripts when fixing it). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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