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From: wraeth <wraeth@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Diagnosing file corruption
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:00:45
Message-Id: 55C2BFBE.7040501@wraeth.id.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Diagnosing file corruption by Bryan Gardiner
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4 On 06/08/15 10:34, Bryan Gardiner wrote:
5 > After I make a fresh backup of my files, how would you recommend
6 > troubleshooting this? Run memtest or a hard drive tester? Since
7 > the files seemingly corrupted themselves after install without
8 > being touched, I'm highly suspicious of the hard drive, but would
9 > like to rule other things out (if say for example that
10 > CONFIG_X86_INTEL_PSTATE CPU clock booster is dangerous, or
11 > nvidia-drivers, or ...). Haven't checked for corruption on /home
12 > yet.
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14 One key question that doesn't seem to have been asked yet: have you
15 performed an fsck on the partition? You could try booting to a livecd
16 environment and running
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18 fsck -fc /dev/sdXY
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20 (adjusting for your device schema accordingly) on your apparently
21 failing partition(s) to see if there is a filesystem corruption...
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24 wraeth <wraeth@×××××××××.au>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Diagnosing file corruption Bryan Gardiner <bog@××××××.net>