On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: >> I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few >> subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run >> rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. >> >> Thanks to all, esp. Bill for mentioning rpc - that was the clue for me. > > Thanks I needed that! You know that one "Aw Shit" wipes out 1000 "'Atta > Boys". Now I have one in the bank - 999 to go! ;-) > So, like an idiot, after I had everything back up and running, I tried it again. It _couldn't_ happen twice. It didn't. The second time it trashed the root file system. I managed to save the one hierarchy I needed the most, and tomorrow I'm reinstalling from scratch. Live and learn - I hope.... mhr