On Thursday 16 October 2003 13:18, Matt Garman wrote: > Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: > > "ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc > > If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux > boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. > This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may > have lost some files or directories due to the corruption."
I'll share the one and only problem I've had with reiserfs. One day my system's kernel started to dump the registers and halt. I would reboot and everything would be fine. I would login to the machine using KDM/KDE and work away for a while then again the system would halt. I couldn't figure out what was going on. 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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
