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