On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:22 PM, C
I didn't think of that when I was reviving the laptop... :-P and now it's back at the user's home.. out of my reach again. I will just cross my fingers and hope it survives until i can get to it again. I made a full backup of all data about a week prior to the fail... so if the drive fails completely, I've got enough to rebuild on a new drive.
I'd run a badblocks on the drive or use the ultimate boot cd's utils to test the drive. I had a 250GB WD laptop PATA drive that I've used for almost 2 years that got a corruption in reiser recently and the drive ended up having problems(you could hear a chirp when it read.......). Only time I've ever had an issue with reiser was an actual drive problem. Reiser defaults to running an fsck every 30 mounts. Not a bad idea in my opinion and it doesn't take that long. I too moved away from ext2 with SuSE 6.x due to power failures making the system unusable without a manual fsck. Resier was so much better. So long as reiser is still supported(and even the bug that beagle uncovered was fixed), I'm gonna keep using it. 4.x was faster but never fully merged into the kernel. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org