On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 02:15:56PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Geez. I had a Debian system go belly-up last night because /var got messed
> up. No journal, so you can't boot out of emergency mode. Can't mount a
> damned USB stick in emergency mode because udev isn't running. Got to boot
> a rescue disk to get anything done.
>
> We really have gone wrong...

Can't you boot with init=/bin/bash ? Then, after repairing /var, do the
obvious replacement.


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