On 08/03/12 3:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should > had rsync to preserve attributes), deleted the original /var to free > up space, edited fstab and rebooted... unsurprisingly to a fubar'd > server. > > The thing is it still boots, I can get into single user mode but a > full init get stuck at starting the syslogger. What is the best way to > rescue the server now from my own stupidity and keeping all the > existing configuration and data? if you had any database servers like postgresql or mysql, and their data files were in the default locations under /var, your databases are undoubtably corrupted, unless you stopped the DB server(s) before doing this copy. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast