Re: Emergency Editors (was Stabble Tag move)

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:16:57PM +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>After a UPS blowup (and I mean smoke and leakage) a part of / and /etc 
>>was corrupted leaving my fstab , rc.conf and some other stuff crippled. 
>>In my case I did a boot with the dragonfly cd , mounted the partition 
>>and restored a backup.
> 
> 
> OK, why can't you "mount /dev/usr_device /usr" or do a fsck first?
> 
> Joerg

It isn't about what we can (and often *must*) do.

One can reach London from Paris via Calais - or Hong Kong.

It is about having more economical basic tools.

- but let's drop it.

I have mine.

Bill