On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Nikhil Joshi wrote:

>     Yes my initial and the recent filesystem crash was due to *power
> failure*
>     Can I have more info 'bout journalling file system please

There's plenty of information on the web. See
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-10/lw-10-penguin_4.html
for info on reiserfs, also see ibm's developerworks page.

The only thing you're probably interested in is how to set it up.  All 
2.4 kernels have reiserfs built in, but you'll have to recompile to 
enable it.  Read the kernel-compiling howto for info.

Alternately, if you have RH7.2, it has ext3, which is basically ext2 
with journalling support.  If you have the driver, then just run tune2fs 
on your file system to create the journal, or add the ext3 patch to your 
kernel source and recompile.

>     Actually I don't have separate partitions. I have this / and swap
> partition only.
>     I do this since my hard disk is just 4 gigs. I've read that you have

not a problem, but even if you have a small harddisk, a separate /boot, 
/usr and / is good.  separate /home may be good to protect your own 
data.

> to be real Linux guru
>     to recover the lost+found data. So I did not bother about it. Can

You should try first to decide.  Don't believe anything you hear.  
Always try it yourself.  Or, in the words of a famous personality `Do or 
do not.  There is no try.'  If you don't know who said that, then you've 
missed out on life.

go into the lost+found directory.  Most files will have weird names, but 
you can generally see the contents.  If you've created the files, then 
you should know what they contain.

Run file on the file to figure out what type it is.

If a directory is in there, then files inside the directory will still 
have their original names.  You can use this to restore the entire 
directory.

-- 
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi:
        Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more
        wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be
        cautious.

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