Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 15:33 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map > > Billy Davis w

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread m . roth
Billy Davis wrote: > On 1/5/2012 11:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Billy Davis wrote: >>> We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted >>> to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to >>> another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/s

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Billy Davis
On 1/5/2012 11:20 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Billy Davis wrote: >> We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted >> to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to >> another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' >> instead o

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread m . roth
Billy Davis wrote: > We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted > to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to > another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' > instead of 'tar cvf /dev/sdb filename'. /dev/sda is our mai

[CentOS] Corrupt mbr and disk directory map

2012-01-05 Thread Billy Davis
We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' instead of 'tar cvf /dev/sdb filename'. /dev/sda is our main (boot/root/apps) scsi