[ILUG] Creating partitions...

[Niall O Broin]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:53:12PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> This doesn't explain the behaviour you saw, but it is work mentioning
> for anyone else doing this kind of thing:
> 
>    You should drop to single-user mode for _all_ of the above, not just
>    the last step.  /var is a live filesystem, so could have changed
>    between the tar and the umount.

I'm even more paranoid than that and would never do that kind of
manipulation while using any of the disks, which you are of course doing in
single user mode. To my mind, manipulation of that level should be done
while you're booted from some other media (the ILUG BBC springs to mind, and
is exactly what you need to fix the mess you're now in).



Niall