Additional Info: Corrupt root filesystem problems

From: Ron Bramblett (bramblet@fuller.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 13:47:30 EST


I have found a disklabel from when I last changed it. I want to use the
old (saved) disklabel.

How would I go about copying the saved label back to the active label??
Will the current data be messed with??

Ron Bramblett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> System AS2000 with 2 300 Mhz CPU, 256 MB memory
> OS Tru 4.0g
> Problem I had a filesystem that was corrupt last week and I need
> to get things working right afterwards.
>
> The server went down last weekend. I basically installed a new system
> disk, booted from CD-Rom and restored / & /usr filesystem.
>
> Now that I did that my / filesystem is full causing more problems like
> tape drives, etc.
> Output of df shows 103%
>
> The new drive I put in was a 9 GB drive. The old one was 4.3 GB. I think
> that I know how to copy everything over but I am a bit rusty on disklabels.
>
> I had adjusted the old disk partition a to a different size. I know what
> size the disklabel was before from sys_check.
>
> How do I edit the disklabel to then get it work correctly?? I have to
> boot to single user mode right??
>
> I looked at this list and tru64.org and not sure if I am searching
> correctly.
>
> Thanks
>

-- 
Ron Bramblett
Sys Admin
Fuller Brush Company


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