[gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-21 Thread Willie Wong
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-21 Thread Willie Wong
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 m

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:37, Willie Wong wrote: > 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 h

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem failure

2007-03-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:42:35AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > You may find that a --fix-fixable does the trick and you don't have to > re-install - this usually only works if you keep your fingers crossed at the > same time. ;-) I wasn't so lucky. :( So now I am re-installing system