Sorry bout the title, just couldn't help myself. Anyway. After doing an emerge -u system, the pc froze totally and so I had to hard reset. Sadly, on startup I get this message:
Unexpected inconsistency, please run fsck on hda3 manually. inode 161 has imagic flag set.
This is fine and dandy, I could get tomsrtbt on the case, but in fact, I have no idea what the imagic flag is, nor what it's meant to be. Interestingly, /dev/hda3 is the root filesystem I'm typing this e-mail on, so it ain't all that bad... is it? I use fsck 1.29 and ext2 as my filesystem.