Nigel Nguyen wrote:
the ? is worrying. That means that fsck is a special file, and ls doesn't know what type of special file it is. fsck shouldn't be a special file, fsck should be a normal regular file. If thats the case then you've had some pretty nasty filesystem corruption. Normally I'd recommend running fsck to repair it but uh, that has issues :)
If you're running gentoo on this machine (you were asking about gentoo earlier right?) then you might want to "emerge e2fsprogs" again. This will require the filesystem to be mounted readwrite (mount -o remount,rw /) which might be a bit dangerous. If you have any important files on this machine I'd suggest copying them off first.
if you can't get emerge working, then you may have to tinker with debug2fs which is uh, painful.
It not my new machine [phews, lucky me]. The new box is still on the way :)) (as most shop open yesterday) and this is the old box that running ubuntu :).
Anyway that mean, I have suffered a ultra-multi-deep-sh*t severe file-corruption :), that remind me, yesterday we had an black-out for 20mins, that made me away from that computer. Uhm... what I think I should do is re-install the box and in the mean time called Genesis to complain that they screwed up my box. However if I do the full install and I currently had 3 partition on that box: hdc1 - / (root) hdc6 - swap hdc7 - /home
so my /home should be okay right if I leave it intact and use it as /home for my new installation ? How can I check my /home partition is not corrupted (lots of my music and movies in there...)?
Yeah that should be fine. I'd recommend fsck to verify that it's ok but uh... So perhaps mount /home then poke around in /home to see if it's ok. Remember to umount /home when you're done before you reboot the machine (since the machine won't)
Luckily, my laptop didn't blow up either... otherwise genesis office might burn-down in the next couple hrs [cheeky]...
p.s: I am sitting on gentoo laptop and write this email.
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