On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > 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
start with emerging coreutils and go on from that point. > > > 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? not really, no. Damaged files are damaged files. Some stuff might be usable but that has to be checked on a case to case basis. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
