091108 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook, >> I had to power the machine off several times. In the course of this, >> some damage seems to have occurred to the file system. >> There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove: >> the msg is "EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 16388". >> I got round the problem by creating new dirs, copying everything else >> & renaming the dirs, but that leaves me with /bad1 , which I can't remove >> as it contains a reference to an inode which no longer exists. >> BTW is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ? >> -- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines. > Have you tried fsk on it? - "man e2fsck"
Sorry to those who suggested this: I didn't think of it, as I haven't used Ext2 (except for /boot ) since 2003. > My personal experience is > ext2 is only for those occasions you dont value the data at all That's my impression from yesterday's potential disaster (wry smile). > ext3 isnt much better > unless you use "data=journal" to get some basic protection. It seemed behind Reiserfs back in 2003, when I built ANB2, & I kept it for ANB3 in 2007; there's never been a problem with it. > use Reiserfs though this may need a complete reinstall. > Updates are still occuring to the Reiserfs code in the kernel, > so Reiserfs is not abandoned by any means. I haven't updated R-fsprogs since 071222, tho' there's a minor revision. Of course, that doesn't mean the stuff in the kernel is that old. It wb a pity if it's not maintained at least till Btree-fs is reliable. Anyway, I've reformatted my partitions to Reiserfs without re-installing (clever, aren't I ? -- big grin). Besides / + /home , I have a big hangar-openspace partition I call /z ( 60 GB ), which is useful for unpacking stuff & has /z/tmp for Emerge to use. I created a dir /z/store3 , then did 'cp -a bin /z/store3' etc for all the dirs in / ; next I used SystemRescue to reformat /dev/hda3 , which is mounted as / , then 'cp -a' everything back again. And it worked !! Similarly for /home & for /z itself (using /store6 ). NB WARNING : if anyone else wants to do this, 'cp -a' is your friend, but be very careful to proof-read all your commands as you do it & use 'du' etc to check that the data really is being copied; some of the copies take a few minutes, but they do get there. So far, I'm very impressed with the ASUS 1005HA & even more with Gentoo, which is perfectly fit for this kind of job. Try a binary distro, run into any kind of problem & what can you do ? Gentoo makes it work ! Now I have to resume getting X to work properly. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
