xfs is horked!?

[Net Llama!]

You may be right.  I just did 'tar cvf f00.tar /' and ended up with a
2.6GB tarball, which seemed about right.  At this point the only damage
appears to be the /tmp permissions weirdness, and the current 'missing'
fonts.    The laptop is at home, so i'll do some more digging tonight.

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 'tarred' to copy a system? Yikes. I know GNU tar is better at this than
> older tars, but I would have used cpio, which handles device and
> special files (like pipes) better. Just personal (and probably
> superstitious) behavior.
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > Turns out that the permissions on all of /tmp were somehow messed up.  I
> > don't know how this is possible, when I tarred up the entire / filesystem
> > (which included eveything but /boot).  So X is working now, although
> > something is still screwy with fonts, cause i can't open an xterm.  Seems
> > that it can't find a font that it needs.  ugh.
>
>
>

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