Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> writes: > Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > >> On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron >>>>> from running an emerge --sync during the night. >>>> >>>> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs >>>> I >>>> decided it is safer to use a LiveCD for this job. So I have to say YMMV. >>>> ;-) >>> >>> I am not sure I understand. If I use a liveCD, won't I have to chroot >>> to the disk with my real system? In that case can't I get the same >>> fs breakage? >> >> You don't have to chroot to run fsck. You can just boot from the LiveCD and >> run `fsck -o -p -t -i -o -n -s /dev/sda1`. >> >> I feel a bit more confident fscking my root filesystem from a LiveCD, >> because you know that you're not repairing the floor you're standing on, and >> fsck can have full leeway to do what it needs to do to clear up the problem >> properly. > > The question was about emerge -e world not fsck (see quoted material > above). > > The fsck succeeded prior to this (I did touch /forcefsck; reboot). > > thanks, > allan
I now understand your comment better. I should have run my previous fsck's under a liveCD. You are right and I am running them again now under a liveCD. I am please to report that no errors were found. So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an emerge -e world I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the emerge. thanks again, allan
