On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:19 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt > >> really quick and no output. > > > > No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking for... > > Typo > > > Usage: reiserfsck [mode] [options] device > > > > Modes: > > --check consistency checking (default) > > But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence > as reported. > > reiserfschk > -su: reiserfschk: command not found > > So it was a typo, I used the right command and then again adding --check > after bootup had finished. (That is the default though so shouldn't > make any difference) and it didn't. If I remember correctly "--check" only checks the filesystem, it doesn't repair it. you have to check the exit status (echo $?) to see if it's '0'. it not you have to run reiserfsck --fix-fixable to correct the problems.
I hope I'm not mistaken, but you should read the man page before doing anything. it's been a few years since I last used reiserfs. Bye > > No output from `reiserfsck /dev/hdb6' whatever. Yet on reboot > ... again the same stop and error report occurs. > -- Haim
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