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On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:37, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:08:24AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong |
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squawked: |
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> > The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel |
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> > logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests |
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> > --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a rather non-zero failure rate. So I |
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> > am getting myself mentally prepped for the perhaps necessary |
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> > re-install. |
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You may find that a --fix-fixable does the trick and you don't have to |
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re-install - this usually only works if you keep your fingers crossed at the |
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same time. ;-) |
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> > I would appreciate greatly if people can offer me some advice/caveats |
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> > of any sort with regards to my plan. |
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> Let me be slightly more concrete. I plan to: |
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> download a stage3 tar ball |
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> unroll the tar ball on my ex-root partition |
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> (follow the handbook) |
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> chroot |
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> emerge --sync |
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> copy over my /etc from my backups |
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> rebuild toolchain |
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> mount my /var partition |
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> emerge -e world |
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> Is there any obvious flaws in that? |
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The obvious flaw is that if the fs corruption is caused by hardware failure |
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you may be back to square one in the near future. OTH it may just be the |
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result of fs fragmentation because you keep your /usr/portage on the same |
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partition as /. I guess you can try moving your /usr into a new partition |
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and see how things evolve thereafter. Did I say make a back up? |
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Good luck. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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