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dr0p

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2008-06-11

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[Solved] Wrecked /home?

Okay, so today I added rTorrent to my OpenBox menu and when I tried to launch it for some reason or another, it caused X to freeze so I held the power button for a few seconds untill my box turned off. Turned it back on and it's doing its usual filesystem checks because they weren't cleanly unmounted but for some reason my sda4 (/home) partition keeps failing the check. I have no clue on how to repair it from the recovery console thing and I was wondering if anyone knows how, or do I just have to mkfs it and rebuild? Thanks a lot.

Last edited by dr0p (2008-12-15 04:13:09)

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Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

Are you using JFS by any chance?
The same thing happened to me when using GPodder, and screwed up my $HOME and /var.
Everything's fine on Ext3.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-12-15 01:43:36)

Xyne

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

What file system do you have on it? (ext3/reiserfs/xfs/jfs/etc)

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dr0p

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

Sorry for not posting it before, I use EXT2.

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mutlu_inek

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Registered: 2006-11-18

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

What does fsck say?

Zepp

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-25

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

Sorry for not posting it before, I use EXT2.

Why are you not using journaling?

dr0p

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2008-06-11

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

What does fsck say?

Wow, fsck fixed it, thanks a lot ^_^

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

Sorry for not posting it before, I use EXT2.

What's it like living in the stone age anyway?

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alex_anthony

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Registered: 2007-09-25

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Re: [Solved] Wrecked /home?

He could be using an SSD and trying to reduce number of writes...