Re: Mandriva 2006 --- anything in /var needed for X

On 12 Mar 2006 04:02:17 -0800, rhaynes74@xxxxxxxxx
<rhaynes74@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I have a machine experiencing hard drive failure.... my /var
partition is corrupt. I want to get the machine up and running with X
for a short time. I took the /var parition out of my fstab but now X
won't work (Xorg...) what is required in /var to get X to work?

Possibly /var/run, /var/lib, /var/tmp. Other things such as mail,
printing and cron require /var/spool. And you need /var/log so that if
things still don't work, you might be able to figure out why.




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