System Recovery

[Jarod Wilson]

You need to give it a block device, not a file system path. i.e., you
need to pass /dev/foo to fsck, not /var.


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:05 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> I have been able to log into root in cli mode.
> 
> I tried fsck -cvfn /var and got
> 
> Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
> trying to open /var.
> 
> What does that mean?  more importantly, what is the recommended course
> of action?
> 
> -Bruce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org
> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Labitt,
> Bruce
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:18 AM
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: System Recovery
> 
> 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
> 
> can't create /var/run/dhclient-eth1.pid: Not a directory
> 
> touch cannot touch 'var/lock/subsys/netplugd': Not a directory
> 
> 
> Then the line "Starting system logger:"  which takes minutes to complete
> - lots of failed module loads follow then I'm dumped out of X mode and
> get a text display which states
> 
> "Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/gdm
> but this does not exist.  Please correct GDM configuration and restart
> GDM."
> 
> 
> 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.
> I guess the first thing to do is to get what ever data off it that I can
> first...  I didn't think an application could cause this kind of carnage
> in linux...
> 
> Is Knoppix live ok for this?  Something better?
> 
> Bruce
> 
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