Re: Most painless re-installation method

[ktb <ktb@nixnotes.org>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:48:10PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I have had some rather bad disk corrpution (laptop battery failed on
> me I think).  The easiest way for me to
> fix it as far as I can see is to re-install as there are a few key
> applications that don't work..   I have a root partition
> and a /home partition.  Only the /root partion is affected.  I can
> back up /etc which seems for the most part unaffected by the
> corruption.
> 
> Can anyone suggest the most painless way to do this.  I can back up
> /etc onto /home.

Have you tried running fsck on /root?  If you describe the errors your
getting someone might have an idea better than re-installing.
kent

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