Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron >>>> from running an emerge --sync during the night. >>> >>> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs >>> I >>> decided it is safer to use a LiveCD for this job. So I have to say YMMV. >>> ;-) >> >> I am not sure I understand. If I use a liveCD, won't I have to chroot >> to the disk with my real system? In that case can't I get the same >> fs breakage? > > 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`. > > 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.
The question was about emerge -e world not fsck (see quoted material above). The fsck succeeded prior to this (I did touch /forcefsck; reboot). thanks, allan
