[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:

In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
 problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
 you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point?

Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on portage?




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, filesystem couldn't be fixed :(

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:
 
 In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
  problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
  you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point?
 
 Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on portage?
 

sys-app/smartmontools

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