[linux] [Wolves] Mounting var directory

[Wayne Morris]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:20, Ron Wellsted wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 7:17 pm, Wayne Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 18:58, Wayne Morris wrote:
> > > When I dug around and mounted hda5 , I found that this contains the var
> > > directory and contents, so I have been trying to mount this on boot in
> > > fstab with
> > > /dev/hda5    /var    ext3 defaults 1 2
> >
> > This is sort of working now ,but giving the following error;
> > #/boot : clean
> > /home:  clean
> > /dev/hda5 is mounted e2fsck cannot continue, aborting.
> >
> > An error occurred during the file system check
> >
> >
> > Var now contains the correct sub directories, but I'm in 'Repair
> > Filesystem' mode, and if I try to run fsck - it says 'running on a
> > mounted filesystem make cause damage'
> >
> > Wayne
> 
> 1. First off all, make sure you boot into single user mode ("linux 1" with 
> lilo)
> 2. try "umount /dev/hda5" to unmount the /var filesystem
> 3. now "fsck /dev/hda5"
> 4. fsck the new filesystem
> 5. mount the new /var filesystem
> 6. "mount /dev/hda5 /mnt" this will mount the old /var on /mnt
> 7. cd /mnt
> 8. copy all files with "find . -depth -print | cpio -advm /var"
> 9. umount both old and new /var filesystems
> 10. fsck both old and new filesystems (to check the count of files is the 
> same)
> 11. edit /etc/fstab to use the new /var (rather than /dev/hda5)
> 12. reboot linux to normal mode.
> 
> HTH
> 
Hi Ron,

Thanks for that, but my main problem that I can see now is that I have
nothing in /usr ,thus no usr bin and no 'find'

Going thru my hda's (I have hda1 - hda15), some like the one containing
the var stuff are mountable, others come up with:

/dev/hda4 No such file or directory
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Can I mount these somehow to reclaim my /usr/bin

Thanks









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