[gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

[Mark Knecht]

So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and
played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night
due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck
complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The
machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell.

So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while
and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do.

Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of
knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come
back, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely.

As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to
go? emerge -e @world and then wait for the next event? Do nothing and
wait?

We've got decent personal data backups as well as basic /etc data.

Thanks,
Mark