Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>
> I want to reinstall all SL 4.4 rpms that are already installed, because 
> there were some errors of bad tracks some time ago, and I performed a 
> surface scan marking all bad tracks via "e2fsck -c -c -C -y". Since 
> then, everything runs quite smoothly and I want to reinstall in a case 
> that there were some data on bad tracks, when I performed the surface 
> scan and repair.

If you want to go ahead with a complete re-install of all the packages,
make SURE to back up all of the configuration files in /etc
Your network configuration files and passwd file are sure to be overwritten.

mkdir /savedir ;  rsync -avx /etc/  /savedir/
or something like that

After the re-install, look for any files marked .rpmsave
RPMs will try to save original configuration files with this .rpmsave 
extension, but you cannot guarantee this

find / -name *rpmsave -print

If you suspect corruption as above, I would consider doing a reinstall.
Use the Kickstart Configurator to create the configuration files to give 
to Anaconda.
I will check with my friend who works with Redhat for some tips on doing 
this.




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