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 1NmqYB-0002y1-4I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:31:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67919E0887; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D53E0887 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmqXp-0003Z0-8Z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:31:30 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o23FVTZX011301 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:31:29 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o23FVTef011298 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:31:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:31:29 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :(" Message-ID: <20100303153129.GC10237@math.princeton.edu> References: <838C106F-28D0-4DFB-822F-520EAECEE034@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b1003030600t18807114g3edc81fa6a86500e@mail.gmail.com> <87zl2pa0ew.fsf@newsguy.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zl2pa0ew.fsf@newsguy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: e3838b9a-09e1-4689-aa0b-a76bf770c137 X-Archives-Hash: ec769b80273caa7d5cf6f8ae4ba468a1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > > > In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption > > problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have > > you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point? > > Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on portage? > sys-app/smartmontools W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton