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 1NkwGf-0001Jp-5l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:13:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF542E0C6F for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB9EE0BC9 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E88EB745D84 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:37 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption? Message-ID: <20100226090937.7fbcd421@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002251933s6a250b99v607c97e09f41d4fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002251933s6a250b99v607c97e09f41d4fe@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs23 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/rNHIE/yNBFxbxdBpei/DhJn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ac2ded1a-4cd3-433b-b77b-9e751ae9fff9 X-Archives-Hash: 6dfbc4cee030dac8109581ebadad732f --Sig_/rNHIE/yNBFxbxdBpei/DhJn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:33:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and > played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night > due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck > complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The > machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell. >=20 > So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while > and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do. Check the disk with smartmontools. --=20 Neil Bothwick All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately! --Sig_/rNHIE/yNBFxbxdBpei/DhJn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuHj9EACgkQum4al0N1GQMSnACfcKcR8K9M+VHjKqMfQZ8YtWra VQcAoLIS2LFjLqvhP/UCvSX0Pz3z+FzG =VlKK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/rNHIE/yNBFxbxdBpei/DhJn--