> And since it's a text file, can't someone fix it with $EDITOR?
I tried to edit the file, but I get the Input/Output error.
The recommendatation was to re-install the OS.
However, I DO NOT want to lose my database,
so I am tring to backup the database.
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From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Database Transfer between machines(again)
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> On 10/05/06 14:50, Brian J. Erickson wrote:
> >>> Problem:
> >>> PostgreSQL "Service" is not runing on a Linux Box,
> >> Why not?
> > The file "/etc/mtab" has been corrupted, when start
> > postgresql the "Service" dies because of an "input/output"
> > error.
> >
> > Therefore, "pg_dumpall' won't work.
>
> Doesn't /etc/mtab get recreated at boot?
>
> And since it's a text file, can't someone fix it with $EDITOR?
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
> Is "common sense" really valid?
> For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> are mud people.
> However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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