Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-18 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 06:17, Bryan Whitehead wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya list, Just need some opinions here, and am not looking for a raving flame-war regarding which file system is better etc ;-) ~ Oh and

[gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya list, Just need some opinions here, and am not looking for a raving flame-war regarding which file system is better etc ;-) ~ Oh and please excuse the long mail, but I need explain my situation clearly to avoid confusion. Last week Friday while

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:32 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya list, Just need some opinions here, and am not looking for a raving flame-war regarding which file system is better etc ;-) ~ Oh and please excuse the long mail, but I need explain

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
Alan McKinnon wrote: It looks like you have a problem with some reiser-related binary that is not on the / partition. There is obviously nothing wrong with hda3 as ext3 works on it. Which partition hosts the /lib and /sbin directories? Both are on the same partition too. This goes for

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/17/06, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to *really* format a drive before recreating a journalled filesystem (reiserfs) so that I really know it's not using an old corrupt one or something? I have other working partitions on that drive so an fdisk is not possible:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 17/07/06, Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always managed to restore my partition after mkfs.reiserfs and fsck.resierfs --rebuild-tree -S. It should (at least I think so) clear the tree and the journal. I agree that this *should* fix it, but with my first attempts it found a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/17/06, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that this *should* fix it, but with my first attempts it found a couple of thousand errors, apparently fixed them, until I ran it again where it kept finding the same errors. This was of course with an already-restored backup. IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 17/07/06, Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC there's also an options to fsck.reiserfs that makes it repair errors because by default it only show what it has found. Look into the man page for more detail (I'm currently at work using Windows). --fix-fixable Yes, I had done this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:23:12 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: If this doesn't solve the problem then I have no idea Does anyone foresee problems doing this, or other things I should check too while at it? Install and run smartmontools, it could be a drive on the way out. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 17/07/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install and run smartmontools, it could be a drive on the way out. Nice tip .. thanks. I have this on my servers, but not (yet) on workstation. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

2006-07-17 Thread Bryan Whitehead
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya list, Just need some opinions here, and am not looking for a raving flame-war regarding which file system is better etc ;-) ~ Oh and please excuse the long mail, but I need explain my situation