[rescue] Sun 5.7 disk partion juggling

[Steve Sandau]

I don't have the original message handy,. but wasn't there enough space on other partitions that the two in question could be tar'ed to other slices? Then you could just delete the data on the two partitions, umount them, edit fstab, remount, untar data back to the new slices...

I, too, *might* try that remotely. ;)

Steve

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:30 -0400
"George Adkins" <george at webbastard.org> wrote:

> > alone getting them to do another. The very Idea of sending them into single
> > user mode over the phone to direct them is making me naseous....
> >
> OOoooohhh....   (or perhaps EEeeww...)
> I understand completely.  editing a partition table by hand is about as close 
> to safe and foolproof as Brain Surgery.  Somehow I don't think these folks 
> spend the night at Holiday Inn Express...
> 
> If there was another machine you could get them to hook up serial-x-serial, 
> and there was enough space in other partitions for tar'ing the data to, I 
> (that's *me*... YMMV)  _might_ try doing it remotely...
> 
> George
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