On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:46, Steven Elling wrote: > I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to > clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped > registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, > I selectively removed files from /tmp and found that when I tried to remove > one particular directory the system would halt. I decided to boot into > single user mode and run reiserfsck. When I did, reiserfsck reported it > found errors it could not fix and I would have to use the '--rebuild-tree' > option. I ran reiserfsck with the option and it fixed my problem without > loosing any data. I was able to remove everything from /tmp and not have > the kernel halt.
I should add - reiserfsck is _much_ faster than e2fsck.
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