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From: Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:47:22
Message-Id: 4C04D6F9.6040106@gmail.com
1 The other night, my laptop decided it didn't want to start Gentoo
2 anymore. Long story short, I ended up using fsck to fix the disk, after
3 which it booted ok. However, the fsck was a bit destructive; at the
4 very least, a few files from my torrents had gone corrupt. That's not a
5 big deal; Vuze lets me re-check all my torrents to make sure they're ok,
6 and I've re-downloaded the bits that weren't. More worrysome is what
7 other files may be corrupt from the exercise.
8
9 My question is: is there a way that Portage can compare what's
10 currently on the hard disk with what it installed, and do some sort of
11 checksum verification on it? I'm going to assume not, unless I had
12 already generated my own checksums. In that case, is the safest bet to
13 do an emerge -e world, and let it rebuild everything? Or is there an
14 easier (i.e., shorter) way of doing it?
15
16 Thanks for your help.
17
18 Jake Moe

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>