[NTLUG:Discuss] re: Linux box crash...revisited...ACHHH

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 13:26, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> At 12:48 PM 12/27/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Thanks for the help guys.
> >
> >I thought I had tried this, but obviously, I hadn't.  What worked was
> >
> >fsck -t ext /usr
> >
> >That got fsck running and enabled me to fix the filesystem...however,
> >after it finished and I exited the bash shell, when the system rebooted,
> >I did get a failure error...I don't remember the exact words, but it was
> >something like...
> >
> >mount error /usr/local /mnt /usr/local is not a directory. /usr/local is
> >its own partition on /dev/hdc3 and when I try to mount it as root, I get
> >this error....
> >
> >mount: mount point /usr/local is not a directory.
> >
> >So it appears something has happened to /usr/local now.  Would running
> >fsck on it help?
> I ran fsck on it...didn't help...came up clean...BUT...
> 
> I think I've found the answer to this question.  When I do ls -l local from 
> /usr, I get no file attributes...no permissions and it's NOT a directory 
> any more.  It's just a file with no permissions owned by root.  Somehow, 
> it's been changed.  So I should just have to do a chmod to add permissions 
> to it.  After that, since it's a file and not a directory, should I remove 
> it and mkdir local to fix this?  Can it be that simple?
> 
> Thanks for all the help guys...you've been a lifesaver.
> 
> Wayne
> 

Wayne,

If the local file is empty then I don't a problem doing this.  As the
file is empty, no data should be lost.  Just remove it, mkdir /usr/local
and mount /dev/hdc3 /usr/local.  That should fix it.  If, once mounted,
you can't write to any files in /usr/local that you could once write to,
try umounting it and remounting it with the -rw option.  man mount for
more information on that.

> 
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Alton R. Pouncey, II
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