Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing
on Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:55:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga insinuated:
>
> hi ya
>
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, nori heikkinen wrote:
>
> > i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck
> > declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it
> > dies, so i knoppix-boot and manually e2fsck -y the thing so i don't
> > have to sit there and babysit it. it finishes, so i reboot and take
> > the knoppix CD out.
>
> i'v always claimed, "e2fsck -y" is very very very bad ...
> as you dont know what its gonna fix or try to fix or what it fixed
yeah, that's true. i never know what i'm *not* supposed to fix,
though, and usually i see it fixing a few inodes, but not the hundreds
it did the other day. now i know :-P
> -- if i see toomany sequential blocks being fixed, i abort
> and let it boot normally ... a few times and let the os
> reboots attempt to fix itself ....
tried that -- kernel panic immediately.
> - am also wondering if the partition was mounted when you told it to
> run e2fsck manually ...
> e2fsck should abort unconditionally or at least read but NOT
> fix anything on mounted fs
no, it wasn't mounted. i made sure of that.
so, now that i'm committed to re-installing, is there a way to get
package seletions without being able to chroot in and do a `dpkg
--get-selections`? i kind of doubt it, but thought it might be worth
asking.
thanks,
</nori>
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