On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +0000, Stroller wrote: > > Many thanks for your help, Willie! > > About 13 items. Is this unlucky? > > http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png >
Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Is it upgraded recently? Any config files in /etc that needs updating? Is udev directory in /etc okay? At this point I don't think your problem is necessarily with the harddrive itself: I think we now know why fsck cannot open file or device. Check /var/log/emerge.log or the portage elogs. Did you upgrade baselayout recently? Good luck, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton