Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:03:16AM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > > > If the partition used to hold a different filesystem, you should try to > > run fsck on it, to see what can be recovered. Taking a backup first > > could be wise. (a backup of the device) > > If it was a reiserfs partition, then you could try --rebuild-tree with > reiserfsck. > > No idea if that works.... > > <pause> > > No, I just tried it and it doesn't :( > -S could help. It would make reiserfsck to look for reiserfs metadata over all the device. Without it reiserfsck only looked into blocks marked used in on-disk bitmap which does not show used too much after mkreiserfs. If the device mkreiserfs-ed accidentally contained ext2 filesystem - mkreiserfs only has overwritten first 8212 4k blocks and bitmap blocks: 32768, 65636, etc. So, e2fsck should be able to recover a lot of things if you will point to use an alternative superblock. Thanks, vs
