> > During a recent reboot, my RHEL 5.3 server (2.6. > 18-128.1.6.el5) came up with a corrupted root partition. I’ve got > LVM installed, with root, /var, /usr/local, /home, /opt and /opt/ > oradata as logical volumes. Only the root LVM had corruption issues. > > I am able to boot the server, but I seem to be > missing a lot of library files and misc files in /etc seem to be altered. > > While I know a full reinstall is probably the best > bet, it’s also going to take the longest and I’m being rushed to get > this server back into service. > > The server was installed as a 5.2 server and then > patched to the current level, so I don’t have boot media for the > current level. > > What I was thinking was doing a reinstall to the > latest 5.4 release using the existing partitions. Do you think my > oracle install will survive this? That’s the main thing I’m trying to save. > > Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >
I don't work with oracle, but I'd assume most of their stuph is in /opt, so you can probably re-install like you want only re-formating root, /var, and /usr/local and be okay. Typically nothing gets put into /opt, but you might want to just not touch those at all (don't even mount) during the install, and configure them manually post-install. But that is just a guess without knowing any additional information. I'm out for the day now, but I figured you would want to hear from someone (the list can be a bit scarce this time of day). -greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
