So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell.
So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do. Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come back, a 1 time deal due to power, or something else entirely. As these cheap machines that don't use RAID what's the right way to go? emerge -e @world and then wait for the next event? Do nothing and wait? We've got decent personal data backups as well as basic /etc data. Thanks, Mark
