http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196
Hi. The forums being down, can you give me help by mail on the topic http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196, since I can't use my Gentoo installation until the problem is solved? The most important thing to me is to know the answer to the two questions: 1) How can I know if other files were corrupted? 2) Do you think I should just use the computer, after reemerging the packages that provide the corrupted files? Or should I reinstall the system from scratch? The background is: a corruption ocurred in my reiserfs partition, possibly due to hardware problems; I performed reiserfsck and recovered virtually all files, but at least some files in /bin are corrupted. In fact, they cannot be executed, and executing the "file" command on them tells that they are just "data" instead of recognising them as an executable. See: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/hda2/bin$ for file in *; do file "${file}" | grep -q data && wc -c "${file}"; done 13772 basename 13500 chroot 27048 cut 79420 dir 13836 dirname 59084 du 13436 env 23336 expr 24516 head 14644 mkfifo 18988 readlink 34100 rm 14684 rmdir 17740 seq 14772 sleep 65168 sort 37380 stty 12584 sync 35852 tail 34328 touch 27492 tr 12200 true 12800 tty 15316 uname 79420 vdir 23108 wc 12876 yes Aren't all these files part of coreutils? So hopefully this was just a misbehaved coreutils emerge instead of a consequence of filesystem corruption. For more details, see the forum thread. I would appreciate any help. Thanks. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
