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by motkhan

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Is there any way to fix just one partitioned in linux (redhat 7.2). I am not able to start my machine as it indicates /var volume is failed.
I am not able to either mount or unmount it.
not able to run fsck either. I attempted to re-install on top on the existing installation, but it dit not allow and indicated that one of the partition/device is still mounted. However, umountall command ran successfully. If I could, I would like to avoid re-formatting. Is there any way that I can only format /var partition or any other means of coming out of this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I don't know much about linux and not familiar with utilities which come with the OS. Thansk

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by servermonkey

Try booting off of the cd into rescue mode.
linux rescue

Once you get past the languages stuff, there will be a prompt that will inform you that it will try to mount your system at /mnt/sysimage.

If that goes ok, you will be able to make that directory your root dir by doing a chroot.

chroot /mnt/sysimage

from there, unmount /var by doing

umount /var

and run e2fsck on /var . Hopefully it will correct the problems.

HTH

Jeff

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