On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>wrote:
> > In my experience, fsck consistently detects file systems corruption, and > consistently fails to do anything useful about it. > In my case, reiserfsck --fix-fixable did the trick, i.e., detected and fixed the exact problem with the directory and file. However, it's pretty common for users to have made a separate volume for > the > portage tree (i.e. something mounted at /usr/portage). If so, just trash > the > thing, download a new-ish tarball of the tree, resync and you're back in > business. > Hmm, something to think about should I ever restructure my setup. Thanks to Daniel, Alex, and Alan for your helpful comments. Walt
