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Hi there<br />
I have Redhat EL 3.<br />
My main volume has become corrupt, I ran fsck , fsck -p and fsck -a several times and it says it's fixing the problems, but every time I reboot the server it wants me to run fsck again.<br />
I have a usb drive that I can access that has everything under \ stored in it (I take daily backups with rsync)<br />
How can I authoritatively restore everything on my USB drive onto my main volume?<br />
The command I used with rsync is this:<br />
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rsync -av --one-file-system / /dev/sdb1<br />
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so everything is under /dev/sdb1 right now.<br />
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When I boot red hat now, I can get to the CLI where I can log in as root and mount the usb drive etc. what should be my next step? alternatively, what else can I try to fix my main volume?
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Hi there
I have Redhat EL 3.
My main volume has become corrupt, I ran fsck , fsck -p and fsck -a several times and it says it's fixing the problems, but every time I reboot the server it wants me to run fsck again.
I have a usb drive that I can access that has everything under \ stored in it (I take daily backups with rsync)
How can I authoritatively restore everything on my USB drive onto my main volume?
The command I used with rsync is this:

rsync -av --one-file-system / /dev/sdb1

so everything is under /dev/sdb1 right now.

When I boot red hat now, I can get to the CLI where I can log in as root and mount the usb drive etc. what should be my next step? alternatively, what else can I try to fix my main volume?

Main volume in red hat EL 3 has become corrupt.

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