On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:08:24AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > The root partition on my laptop just crapped out today. The kernel > logs report a problem with reiserfs. Reiserfsck suggests > --rebuild-tree, which AFAICT has a rather non-zero failure rate. So I > am getting myself mentally prepped for the perhaps necessary > re-install. > > I would appreciate greatly if people can offer me some advice/caveats > of any sort with regards to my plan.
Let me be slightly more concrete. I plan to: download a stage3 tar ball unroll the tar ball on my ex-root partition (follow the handbook) chroot emerge --sync copy over my /etc from my backups rebuild toolchain mount my /var partition emerge -e world Is there any obvious flaws in that? W -- I have a speech impediment... my foot. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 104 days, 3:55 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
