On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:46, Steven Elling wrote: > > I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to > > clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped > > registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, > > I selectively removed files from /tmp and found that when I tried to remove > > one particular directory the system would halt. I decided to boot into > > single user mode and run reiserfsck. When I did, reiserfsck reported it > > found errors it could not fix and I would have to use the '--rebuild-tree' > > option. I ran reiserfsck with the option and it fixed my problem without > > loosing any data. I was able to remove everything from /tmp and not have > > the kernel halt. > > I should add - reiserfsck is _much_ faster than e2fsck.
I've had reiserfsck --rebuild-tree turn damaged filesystems into totally unusable filesystems. Maybe it's gotten more robust since I encountered my problems. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
