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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:09:21
Message-Id: yu9y68qhs4v.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world? by Stroller
1 Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
5 >>>>
6 >>>> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
7 >>>> from running an emerge --sync during the night.
8 >>>
9 >>> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs I
10 >>> decided it is safer to use a LiveCD for this job. So I have to say YMMV. ;-)
11 >>
12 >> I am not sure I understand. If I use a liveCD, won't I have to chroot
13 >> to the disk with my real system? In that case can't I get the same
14 >> fs breakage?
15 >
16 > You don't have to chroot to run fsck. You can just boot from the LiveCD and run `fsck -o -p -t -i -o -n -s /dev/sda1`.
17 >
18 > I feel a bit more confident fscking my root filesystem from a LiveCD, because you know that you're not repairing the floor you're standing on, and fsck can have full leeway to do what it needs to do to clear up the problem properly.
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20 The question was about emerge -e world not fsck (see quoted material
21 above).
22
23 The fsck succeeded prior to this (I did touch /forcefsck; reboot).
24
25 thanks,
26 allan

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