Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 23:45, stephan beal wrote:
> i *always* do a fresh install, because i don't trust any OS upgrade
> process (not biased against Suse, just against upgrades in general).

That's called 'experienced user' syndrome ;-)

> However, my /home partition was of course *not* reformatted, and if it
> was corrupted before, then of course the 10.1 install would have
> inherited that corruption.

This would be my guess, too.

> For now i'm going to assume that the reiserfs corruption was the problem
> and hope/pray that it doesn't happen again. i was, luckily enough, able
> to tar up my /home directories, rescuing my evening's worth of C++
> code. The --rebuild-tree process only deleted 8 files, none of which i
> use, and most of which were old HTML and PDF files generated by Lyx
> more than 2 years ago.
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Glad you were able to 'land' this one gracefully.

Carl