Re: anyone interested?

[Justin McCormick <justinm@schoolcenter.com>]

It seems to me that all Eric wants currently is to get the data off the 
harddrive but cannot do so because the boot drive has errors/failed.  
The best thing I would think to do would be to grab a live CD of your 
favorite distro and mount the good drive to get the contents off of it.

Roger Hill wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Can you post some of the error messages here ? 
>
> It may be, all you need to do is fsck the /var or other partitions . 
>
> I'd suggested storing all of your website data in it's own partition, NOT /var, /var is a system level partition. 
>
> Something like /data01/www or whatever, but on it's own partition or disk would be best. If that is not possbile , you could NFS mount a partition on a different machine, and server content from the NFS mount, that way.  
>
> This is a typical scenario done, with multiple web servers able to share/read/write data from a shared filesystem . 
>
> Reply back with some of  the errors , and we'll see what we can do ... 
> --
> #!/usr/bin/rh stop
>
> ---- eric <eric@egyptian.com> wrote: 
>
> =============
> the big muddy imc is attempting to reestablish its web presence. it was on an old pii running redhat. fortunately, the site data was in var. var is a separate drive on our machine. the boot drive is showing various errors and will not boot.
>  if you are unfamiliar with the big muddy independent media center, it is a collective that is part of a global network of imc's.  we have been offered server space but need assistance in insuring that our data is functional.
>
> best
> eric
>
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