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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 |
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> good |
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> experiences with reiserfsck (for 3.6) and fsck.reiser4 (with reiser4). If |
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> 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 |
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> anyway. |
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I realized that the damaged files were filled with nulls, so I made a |
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script that detected null-filled files across my filesystem. There are |
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some 250 files like this. Here are some: |
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/media/hda2/bin/du: 59084 |
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/media/hda2/bin/rm: 34100 |
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/media/hda2/bin/tr: 27492 |
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/media/hda2/bin/wc: 23108 |
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/media/hda2/bin/dir: 79420 |
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/media/hda2/bin/cut: 27048 |
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/media/hda2/bin/env: 13436 |
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/media/hda2/bin/seq: 17740 |
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/media/hda2/bin/tty: 12800 |
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/media/hda2/bin/yes: 12876 |
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/media/hda2/bin/expr: 23336 |
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/media/hda2/bin/head: 24516 |
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/media/hda2/bin/sort: 65168 |
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/media/hda2/bin/stty: 37380 |
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/media/hda2/bin/sync: 12584 |
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/media/hda2/bin/true: 12200 |
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/media/hda2/bin/vdir: 79420 |
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/media/hda2/bin/dirname: 13836 |
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/media/hda2/bin/rmdir: 14684 |
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/media/hda2/bin/sleep: 14772 |
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/media/hda2/bin/touch: 34328 |
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/media/hda2/bin/uname: 15316 |
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/media/hda2/bin/chroot: 13500 |
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/media/hda2/bin/mkfifo: 14644 |
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/media/hda2/bin/readlink: 18988 |
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/media/hda2/bin/basename: 13772 |
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/media/hda2/etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf: 2964 |
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/media/hda2/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf: 15916 |
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/media/hda2/etc/laptop-mode/lm-profiler.conf: 1561 |
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/media/hda2/etc/portage/package.keywords/wanted~: 796 |
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/media/hda2/var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs: 1812 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.info: 232 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cset: 13848 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cset: 14133 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cmap: 31404 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cset: 14039 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cset: 13682 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cmap: 27758 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cset: 12557 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cmap: 35133 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cset: 13307 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cmap: 31235 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cset: 13920 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/context-filter.so: 26976 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cmap: 31046 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cset: 14259 |
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/media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.info: 914 |
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Most of these things are not essential; the big exception is the things in |
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/bin. So it does seem that the system is fixable. |
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Something else that I wanted to ask: this backup that I made after the |
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screwup but before rebuild-tree, do you think it is reliable? |
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Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. |
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