Fsck.ext3 a little too fast, what's best way make sure nothing lost?

Short of reinstalling, what are the easiest measures I can take to make sure what I can guarentee is not corrupted is not corrupted? I am going to resync pacman and reinstall everything on my system, but is there anything else I can do? I went through that fsck.ext3 a LITTLE too fast (the system refused to boot until I did it) and now fear something important might have been written. There *are* two files in lostandfound, though I'm not quite sure what to do with them. I guess I'm just a little concerned. All *seems* to be well but...... yeah.
I think I found at least one thing that is corrupt... cd! When you put cd <path that doesn't exist> it spits out weird symbols instead of the usual error message:
megini / $ cd De
bash: cd: De: Τ褦ʥեǥ쥯ȥϤޤ
Is that a part of coreutils?
Last edited by violagirl23 (2008-06-18 07:14:12)

fsck doesn't normally do a full check on ext3 unless the filesystem is due a check either according to the time since the last check or the mount count, however you can force a check by using the -f option.
I would only bother reinstalling packages if I had a good reason to think their files were corrupted, e.g. weird errors like the one with the cd command, complaints about missing file or files from a package turning up in lost+found. All packages will reinstalled sooner or later anyway when the packages get updated.
That file from lost+found looks like the pacman depends files for xine-ui, so you could just move it back to /var/lib/pacman/local/xine-ui-<version>/depends where <version> is the version you have installed on your system.
Oh, and "which cd" doesn't return a result for a file, so I think carlocci is right about it being a bash built-in.

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