System Recovery

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:02 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Labitt, Bruce
> <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> > I was running as a user.  NOT root.
> 
>   Worrysome.
> 
>   Though, come to think of it, aren't some disc-recording types of
> programs normally installed SUID root?

Yep. And k3b tends to complain loudly at startup if it isn't, iirc.

> > There maybe a typo in there, I had to copy it from one screen to
> > another.
> 
>   For future reference, the only really important columns for this
> sort of thing are the first two, which specify the device and
> mount-point, respectively.  Also, you can omitting virtual filesystems
> (proc, tmpfs, sysfs, etc.).  So the short version is:
> 
> LABEL=/boot                      /boot
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00         /
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01         swap
> /dev/lvol1/data                  /data
> 
>   That tells us you're using LVM, and that your /boot filesystem
> partition was being mounted via label.  Unfortunately, that doesn't
> tell us anything about what's stored where.

Well, it does say "there's no /var partition"... So I dunno wtf fsck was
resolving to when he asked to fsck /var...



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Jarod Wilson
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