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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:31:52
Message-Id: 20100303153129.GC10237@math.princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :(" by Harry Putnam
1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 > > In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
5 > > problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
6 > > you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point?
7 >
8 > Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on portage?
9 >
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11 sys-app/smartmontools
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15 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
16 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
17 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton