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