System Recovery

[John Abreau]

On Tue, July 15, 2008 10:18 am, Labitt, Bruce said:
> What tools are available for recovery of a linux system?  I have no idea
> what happened - but my system took a dump.  SciLinux5.2 (RHEL5.2).  I
> make it through the text mode then go into the x detail mode.  I get a
> lot of daemons failing and the odd lines that say stuff like:
>
> touch cannot touch /var/lock/subsys : Not a directory
>
....
> This all happened when I started a K3b format of a DVD+RW disk - if it
> matters...  The system rebooted on me and I have been hosed ever since.


It sounds like the filesystem is thoroughly hosed. Based on the symptoms
you describe, my first guess would be that you mistakenly pointed K3b at
your hard drive instead of the DVD drive.



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