Many thanks Andreas.
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs > > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, > > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal for > > reiser? And, how do I turn dma on? A similar situation occurred with > > all ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed > > significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do > > you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd? > > Gavin. > > > Hi, > > Looks like the system was turned off without cleanly unmounting all > partitions. This should trigger a filesystem check at next reboot. The > message with Ctrl-D to reboot does also contain a oppertunity to login as > root (just type roots password). This is due to the fact that fsck.reiserfs > was unable to repair certan problems and needs to be run with optional > parameters that you must manually specify; probably --rebuild-tree. > > A solution would be to boot up the system normaly and then enter runlevel 1 > by > using the command "init 1" as root. Next umount the partition that is having > problems and do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition]" and see if that > helps, otherwise do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition] --rebuild-tree". > This helped me after some bad thunderstorms that caused blackouts last summer > and corrupted some of my partitions on my file server. > > Best regards, > Andreas Karlsson > Sweden -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- [email protected] mailing list
