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 1QgPff-0005Ta-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:13:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB44321C08B for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA70D21C395 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so2383523gyg.40 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:33:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VzVQRlNyM3ikEMGtoP+3uHNWiUXaTMUceCg0zdsoYYM=; b=F37rYkXm39E9TUBSMJEZSXOyLODr3Q/SVLb9+7ORqm1+8tJls6zpN33jP0jMisBFUv x+X/Ky5wGKKTA6fr8LsykBaGVijLDRH+HsfYcOxt/9oOO1rgmUa0U0q7Bv4NsKQJ+HjH SpTqbH9jIXBJMNx+qKdSt0X07scmVsnvzsM4w= Received: by 10.236.77.132 with SMTP id d4mr3826249yhe.398.1310423629288; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-57-83.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c63sm154957yhe.74.2011.07.11.15.33.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1B7A4A.6030901@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:33:46 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E1A0029.7030606@gmail.com> <3783194.nmBZMYET61@weird> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bee04ff574960e929d4bc4f7771c2b78 walt wrote: > On 07/11/2011 09:42 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > >> Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown could >> have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a journaling >> file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout this. >> > I agree with Neil so (if I'm awake enough) I'll force an fsck by doing: > > #touch /forcefsck in the root directory of any filesystem you might > be worried about, and then reboot. > > Do this before resuming any emerge, of course, so you don't screw up > the fs any more than it already is. (BTW I still use only ext3, so I > can't say anything about reiser, ext4, etc.) > > > I think the point of the journal is not to preserve the files but the file system. There is a huge difference. The journal may fix the file system but a corrupt file will still be a corrupt file. The only thing worse than loosing a few hours of compiling, resuming a compile only to find out you have to start over anyway. Just saying. ;-) Dale :-) :-)