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On 2019-11-04 22:46, n952162 wrote: |
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> Ah, I didn't know that about running fsck multiple times - I remember |
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> after doing my home directory - the more important one - it did say |
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> "file system modified". I don't remember if the root fsck said that, |
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> though. But it looks like I'm going to have re-install gentoo, in any |
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> case, because virtualbox is all sitting in lost+found. |
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A tip: whatever the virtues of journaling FS, it doesn't hurt to keep |
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around a recovery tool along the lines of app-admin/testdisk. |
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It saved my a*e earlier this year when I carelessly scribbled over my |
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archive drive with thousands of pictures. I'd skipped doing |
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id and thought the output of my dd command was going |
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to a thumb drive I'd just inserted. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |
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