Re: fsck




Thanks! And thanks for the sh recommendation, that easier than what I was going to do...




At 05:21 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
tech@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've got a /usr partition with some problems. During boot it fails and I'm
> prompted to run fsck manually. I do so and when fsck has finished it asks
> me to run it again, and again, and again...

If that happens, I would assume that the disk is dying. Do
not try to fsck it, because it will probably make it worse.
Instead, use "dd if=/dev... of=... conv=noerror,sync" to copy
the disk to a safe place (i.e. other disk of same size or
larger). Then run fsck there.

> And now for something completely different.... If I can't get the /usr
> partition to work is there any way to recreate the user directories from
> the password file? The contents will be lost but nobody uses their folder
> anyway, I just need all the /usr/home folders created... I could write a
> script, but I thought I'd check first to see if something already exists.......

That's trivial. In /bin/sh syntax:

# cd /home
# awk -F: '$3>999{print $1}' /etc/passwd | xargs mkdir
# for i in *; do chown $i:$i $i; done

That will create home directories for all users whose UID
is greater than 999.

Best regards
Oliver


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