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>it's somehow lost access to all its mount points How could that happen and leave your system in a state where it is still accessible and can be fixed by a re
by herokusaki 13y ago
>it's somehow lost access to all its mount points
How could that happen and leave your system in a state where it is still accessible and can be fixed by a reboot?
If you think you might face that kind of trouble you should keep a copy of Busybox and whatever other tools you might need on a RAM drive. You'd have an opportunity to figure out if rebooting would lead to a usable system.
- Nursie 13y agoThe machine would occasionally stop responding completely. I got into the habit of leaving an open ssh session going from another box so I could try and poke around. The root drive was on a (very fast) usb 3.0 stick on an internal header on an add-in card. There was a problem with the card or the driver as every so often something would go wrong and everything would stop responding again. The shell I left open revealed almost nothing as the root drive was gone, but it could be used to reboot the machine (thanks to the trick above), which would then be good again for another few days. I now have / on a proper SSD...