Greetings, Debian Etch AMD64 multi-disk ReiserFS
Came in to find /dev/md6 wasn't mounted after rebooting the box. Tried to run fsck on it, but fsck.reiserfs was missing because reiserfsprogs wasn't installed. I can't apt-get or dpkg because those tools reside under /usr. This leads to a few questions and possible solutions: 1. Why isn't reiserfsprogs a dependency of the kernel image that has support for it? Shouldn't all file system tools be dependent if the kernel being pushed out to the box supports said file system? How can one fix a file system if they don't have the correct tools to do so? 2. Why is apt-get and dpkg under /usr? Shouldn't they belong under /sbin? If they were, I'd have access to those tools and would be able to dpkg -i reiserfsprogs. I'm going to assume that dependencies for dpkg and apt-get require a lot of stuff that is located under /usr, and those dependencies have no place to be in /sbin. I understand this is -devel and not the standard mailing list where I should ask for support, but any info on how I can recover from this would be greatly appreciated. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
