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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
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> I want to reinstall all SL 4.4 rpms that are already installed, because
> there were some errors of bad tracks some time ago, and I performed a
> surface scan marking all bad tracks via "e2fsck -c -c -C -y". Since
> then, everything runs quite smoothly and I want to reinstall in a case
> that there were some data on bad tracks, when I performed the surface
> scan and repair.
If you want to go ahead with a complete re-install of all the packages,
make SURE to back up all of the configuration files in /etc
Your network configuration files and passwd file are sure to be overwritten.
mkdir /savedir ; rsync -avx /etc/ /savedir/
or something like that
After the re-install, look for any files marked .rpmsave
RPMs will try to save original configuration files with this .rpmsave
extension, but you cannot guarantee this
find / -name *rpmsave -print
If you suspect corruption as above, I would consider doing a reinstall.
Use the Kickstart Configurator to create the configuration files to give
to Anaconda.
I will check with my friend who works with Redhat for some tips on doing
this.
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John Hearns
Senior HPC Engineer
Streamline Computing,
The Innovation Centre, Warwick Technology Park,
Gallows Hill, Warwick CV34 6UW
Office: 01926 623130 Mobile: 07841 231235
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