Restoring a destroyed /var partition
08/01/2018 15:30
Hi I needed to reformat my /var partition from reiserfs to ext3 on a workingDebian system. So, I copied the contents of /var over to anotherpartition /backup. Went down to run level 1 (telinit 1). Unmounted /var.Reformatted it (mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda8) and then made a blunder : mv /backup/* /var Now /var was not mounted then. So, I guess the above just created adirectory named var under /, and then I rebooted. You can imagine whathappened next - /var ended up being empty. The boot would now hang atsyslogd. I then logged in the single user mode. Created /var/runand /var/log and then an empty file /var/run/utmp.
However, the machine is now practically useless - no network connection,many programs crash complaining of missing shared libraries, etc. How do Iget out of this mess short of reinstalling Debian ? Thanks.
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08/01/2018 15:30 - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not true.Source is Usenet: alt.os.linux.debian
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08/01/2018 15:30 - All you need to do is go back and *finish* what you started! Goto runlevel 1 again, umount /var, and mv /var/* /backup andyou will be right where you left off.First mount your new partition on /var, then *copy* your filesback to it, mount -t ext3 /dev/sda8 /var cp -a /backup/* /var Now you can go back to multi-user mode and all should be fine.
If it is, you can delete all of the files in /backup.
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08/01/2018 15:30 - That will not work. I used the mv command. Which means that /backup is nowempty.Source is Usenet: alt.os.linux.debian
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