One month old desktop completely trashed by crash. (what jou

RoccoD · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

Hi guys,

I think i'm going to cry

I just had the first crash since I installed Gentoo. I switched X
on and off while adjusting usb mouse drivers and such.. ok.

I just restarted and did an xfs_repair.
However all my settings are F*(Ed up. no more XF86Config,
kdm screwed up (all user in list), i didn't investigated what more it did
trash. So what is the fun about xfs, apart from being fast.

Sorry for the negative remarks, but i'm not in the mood anymore for doing a complete reinstall after all the tweaking.

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:53 pm Post subject:

That's exactly the moment to think about regular backups in the future.

RoccoD · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

RoccoD · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

Anyway, I was quite pleased with Gentoo.
Only XFS is a little bit of a dissappoinment. I tried my previous SuSE installation by pulling the plug and crashing the kernel. Never lost a file. (not that I know anyway

Jeevz · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

I'm running ext3 and haven't had a problem. Even when my wife gets pissed at me and pulls the plug :wink:

Malakin · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:11 pm Post subject:

I've used Reiser on all the systems I've setup, never had a problem.

After installing Gentoo I noticed the script that ran fsck.reiser on boot was actually trying to run /sbin/fsck.reiserfs which didn't exist, so I just fixed the link, kinda wondered how many people had that happen to them. Without this fixed everytime you booted your filesystem wouldn't be checked even after a crash, and that would be very bad.

niyogi · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:20 pm Post subject:

i think ext3 is the way to go... i believe it's what the gentoo installation guide suggests so thats what i did (and i know it's rock stable too)

-S

Q-Bert · Guest

I had that problem as well in the first few days of Gentoo (2 weeks ago :wink:

).

I think that I will switch to ext3 this weekend.

I felt sick to my stomach when I saw that I lost files after a crash, when using XFS. Not a good situation even if I do regular backups...

Brent Jackson · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Boone, NC

Now that I have my system all setup I want to back up my installation.

Is there a way just to backup /dev/hda to CD? I have two partitions on /dev/hda, /dev/hda1 is /boot and /dev/hda2 is /, with a swap partition existing on /dev/hdb2, and /dev/hdb1 being my /home/mp3.

I really dont care about having my /dev/hdb* backed up since I have all of my mp3s backed up to another computer, but I have no clue how to begin backing up /dev/hda to cd (and having it easily recoverable) does anyone have a good suggestion?

Thanks

Brent