[gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196

Hi. The forums being down, can you give me help by mail on the topic
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196, since I can't use
my Gentoo installation until the problem is solved?

The most important thing to me is to know the answer to the two questions:

1) How can I know if other files were corrupted?
2) Do you think I should just use the computer, after reemerging the
packages that provide the corrupted files? Or should I reinstall the system
from scratch?

The background is: a corruption ocurred in my reiserfs partition, possibly
due to hardware problems; I performed reiserfsck and recovered virtually all
files, but at least some files in /bin are corrupted. In fact, they cannot
be executed, and executing the "file" command on them tells that they are
just "data" instead of recognising them as an executable. See:


jorge@jorge:/media/hda2/bin$ for file in *; do file "${file}" | grep -q data
&& wc -c "${file}"; done
13772 basename
13500 chroot
27048 cut
79420 dir
13836 dirname
59084 du
13436 env
23336 expr
24516 head
14644 mkfifo
18988 readlink
34100 rm
14684 rmdir
17740 seq
14772 sleep
65168 sort
37380 stty
12584 sync
35852 tail
34328 touch
27492 tr
12200 true
12800 tty
15316 uname
79420 vdir
23108 wc
12876 yes

Aren't all these files part of coreutils? So hopefully this was just a
misbehaved coreutils emerge instead of a consequence of filesystem
corruption.

For more details, see the forum thread.
I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
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