[Gllug] I/O error

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Jul 25 22:13:24 UTC 2003


On , 25 Jul 2003, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>As it looks from your mail as though it's in /etc, how about creating a
>/newetc, hard-linking everything except that file into the new
>directory, then rm -rf /etc;  mv newetc etc, then reboot and fsck

It might be a good idea to do this in single-user mode or even booted
with init=/bin/bash (caution; you'll need to remount the root
filesystem ro after you're done and sync it.)

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