Repair damaged /var filesystem

davep911 · 06-04-2004, 08:04 AM

My Redhat9 will not boot - it recommended manual repair of the filesystem.
I ran fsck and got lots of errors on all the file systems.
Eventually I ran fsck -y
It repaired all the filesystems except /var (which is a separate partition) which it reports that it can't fix. (EXT2 directory corrupted)
Re-running fsck gives the same result.

Is there any way to reconstruct /var without destroying the rest of the installation and starting from scratch?

whansard · 06-04-2004, 08:09 AM

copy what you can out of it if anything, and back it up, then format the /var again and you'll likely be fine. there is little important there. log files and such mostly. then fix whatever error messages you get.