2. move to reiserfs to minimise it happening again (I got sick of losing data to ext3) - YMMV
Woah. My experience has been the opposite. Ext3 has never given me problems since I started using it with RedHat 9/Fedora Core 1 almost two years ago. On the other hand, trying to install a ReiserFS-based Gentoo system continually gave me problems (failed attempts to mount it initially, sometimes would hardlock during disk-intensive things like `emerge --sync` or compiling something, etc).
*shrug* Oh well...
Also, on systems with a large harddisk (or better, add a small harddisk especially for this to minimise exposure) I keep a second, small recovery partition with a minimal gentoo system, tools and critical services for occasions like this.
That's a *great* idea! :-D
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