On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:37, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:08:24AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > > 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.
You may find that a --fix-fixable does the trick and you don't have to re-install - this usually only works if you keep your fingers crossed at the same time. ;-) > > I would appreciate greatly if people can offer me some advice/caveats > > of any sort with regards to my plan. > > Let me be slightly more concrete. I plan to: > > download a stage3 tar ball > unroll the tar ball on my ex-root partition > (follow the handbook) > chroot > emerge --sync > copy over my /etc from my backups > rebuild toolchain > mount my /var partition > emerge -e world > > Is there any obvious flaws in that? The obvious flaw is that if the fs corruption is caused by hardware failure you may be back to square one in the near future. OTH it may just be the result of fs fragmentation because you keep your /usr/portage on the same partition as /. I guess you can try moving your /usr into a new partition and see how things evolve thereafter. Did I say make a back up? Good luck. -- Regards, Mick
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