Hello, On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:27:47 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| That was about 13 hours ago...and its still running. I didn't | think to redirect output to a file, but AFAIK, it's in Pass 3 now. Lots | of file names are scrolling by, but only on the last line of my terminal, | so it's difficult to tell what its up to. Well, not using "-q" option of reiserfsck is a major slowdown, especially if you use a serial console. I always use it with -q and -l /path/to/logfile.log which i tail if i want to know the reiserfsck progress. | Am I correct in assuming that stopping | reiserfsck before the rebuild-tree finishes would be "bad"...i.e. we won't | be able to access the data, and would have to start over anyway? Don't ever do that :) or then prepare to go there: http://www.namesys.com/support.html | | Is there any possibility of getting to the data (most of it anyway) on | this partition if we have to stop the rebuild before it completes?...i.e. | if it really is caught in a loop. Again, *don't* stop it, just wait. I know it's always too long but you need yo be patient if you want your data back :) | | The system is a dual PIII-733. Other than the rebuild and a few admins | ssh'd in to keep an eye on it, the system is idle. I'm not seeing a whole | lot of activity (1MB/s in, 1MB/5s or so out according to vmstat) and CPU | idle 98%. If CPU and disk i/o aren't limiting it, what's causing the | rebuild-tree to take so long? Maybe broken hardware ? just a guess. Thanks, Philippe
