The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a rather non-zero failure rate. So I am getting myself mentally prepped for the perhaps necessary re-install.
I would appreciate greatly if people can offer me some advice/caveats of any sort with regards to my plan. The run-down of the state of my laptop: 1. Luckily/unluckily, I had separate partitions for /var and /home, neither of which seems to be affected (I need to still run smartctl and reiserfsck to verify that). 2. It seems that the damage is limited to /usr (which is not mounted separately, so is a sub-directory of /) The plan would be to bootstrap the system using a liveCD, I seem to already have a workable /var (and hence an okay edb/cache and world file), does it sound workable to just a) get portage, system, toolchain running b) emerge -e world ? Assuming my /etc isn't hosed, the system should still be bootable, if I recover all the right files, right? Thanks, Willie -- Sortir en Pantoufles: up 104 days, 3:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
