hey guys. hope u're doing well.
here's the problem.
decided to move from debian to gentoo, wiped off everything
. got the 2 iso cds, resized the partition to 22gb. which is fairly more than enough.
installed gentoo. done everything in the manual, compiled my own kernel, it was pretty straight forward. and also my make.conf was ok. emerged kde, and x, as well as other packages as well.
after i rebooted "after getting everything installed"
had fsck screen, yeah and i choose ext3 over ext2.
anyways. after it fixed alot of inodes. and problems. i couldn't type the reboot command. i mean it didnt work, cuz a file doesn't exist, had to hard reboot. and grubwas giving me error msg.
booted from live cd. mounted the partition, and everything was gone,except for adirectory called lost+found chich has alot of #numbers. my guess is they're the inodes?... however. i did try doing fsck again. but this time with -b 8193 , and other multiples, the 3rd one worked. and it did do the checking all over again. ofcourse the fixing process. then i checked the partition, it was still the same. rebooted. nothing hs changed except for the fact that it has now become ext2 filesystem instead of ext3
and it has 2.2 gb used. i wonder for what.
umm now for my question. lets say , since fsck saved a list of the bad blocks and inodes... i dont mind going through the installation process all over again. but would it still use the bad blocks? and fsck would mess up my system again?
i dont wanna retreive the data. since i haven't installed anything just compiled the kernel and such. but i can't format either. i got windows on another partition. too much hassle. anyone suggests anything other than buying a new hardisk? cuz i dont have so many files corrupted. fsck says , i got 0.6% non-contaiguous , in a 40 Gb hardisk.
im not taking any action. just waiting and searching google.
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