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On Sonntag, 9. September 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> On 9/8/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> |
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> > 2) Do you think I should just use the computer, after reemerging the |
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> > > packages that provide the corrupted files? |
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> > yes |
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> Do you think that there is any plausible chance that using the partition |
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> might cause further damage? |
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if there isn't a hardware problem - very probably not. I have had very good |
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experiences with reiserfsck (for 3.6) and fsck.reiser4 (with reiser4). If the |
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fs got fixed, it is fixed. |
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If the disk is damaged, than reinstalling from scratch won't help you anyway. |
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> > ln -s busybox rm |
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> Gentoo should have an automated way to do this. For me, it looks like there |
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> should be an eselect option for "activating" busybox. |
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no, it shouldn't. I tried it a few weeks ago - replaced most of /bin with |
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symlinks to busybox. Emerging stuff still worked - but a handfull of |
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init-scripts stopped working in the worst way - they just hung after spitting |
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out some error messages. So using busybox should be something that is hard to |
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do - to prevent unsuspecting users from problems. In case of emergency you |
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can always boot into busybox with the right kernel boot parameter. |
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> > I hope you learned your lessons! |
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> > Lesson 1: /home on its own partition. |
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> I read somewhere that most of the time when a disk fails it will take all |
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> of its partitions with it, so putting /home is its own partition does not |
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> help. |
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if your fs gets damaged for some reason or another, it is good, when the |
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damage does not spread to your private data. The OS can be easily |
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reinstalled. Several years of intensively collected nude pictures not. |
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A different partition for /home prevents some bad stuff from happening. It is |
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a good thing! |
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For example my /var damage some weeks ago. It was contained to /var |
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because /var was the partition the system was writing to, when the sata cable |
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came loose. If everything would have been on one partition I might have lost |
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my ~/Mail dir - with hundred thousand+ mails ... or my ~/text dir, which |
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contains everything I write... |
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> Perhaps that person was wrong... at least in my case, I clearly had a |
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> logical failure in the partition, with no physical failure in the disk, so |
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> if I had multiple partitions, maybe only one would have problems. |
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it is very probably only one would have had the problems. |
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> > Lesson 2: backups. |
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> Hehe. Yes I know. Fortunately it seems I was very lucky this time... |
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a little hint: ebay. Used dlt 35/70 drive. Pretty cheap and robust. use tar |
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for backup, but use mbuffer to puffer or you will never backup/restore with |
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full speed and the drive suffers. |
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