From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OnmS3-0006ja-In for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:53:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04668E09A8; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7518E09A8 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.internal [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC12A190 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:53:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:53:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=SyOfeQrSw2o07Jqy9hByqdjnXTU=; b=gf3M3/ShDaczSAtAgnfYsAvLiquX8JsG4v8JDSL9QMtpxKzeqzgEIOUvgX2BEN+hU3ZYzqHgbHdYkn+IquvjwW1wxk86k2jET4oSO1Q93TiCALM2lVLEHtooZwii8VixF+c3kbSTyY1CUO+eaN3yy1Rf5bZL1W+C+u727BzvvtI= X-Sasl-enc: XH2kIKbeX7n2Y55S2cEBZN72VzomFON8fSV/es4k0qzy 1282629192 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-069-134-182-167.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.182.167]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68C17400356 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:53:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help! From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:53:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1282629191.77838.5.camel@paska> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 12e2d30b-40c4-4cf2-acce-7cda0e34ad50 X-Archives-Hash: 1c56ced62f4350803c0a482887913709 On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +0000, James wrote: [...] > try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for > $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you > through it all. Did you try that? ;) It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... Not sure why you had to dd/urandom to clear the partition table. Just simple running fdisk and saving will re-write over what previously existed in the partition table.