>Damien De Paoli writes:
> >
> > Hi, I hope this is the appropriate forum for this email. I rec
>ently
> > booted into my linux machine and my /home partition (living on
> > /dev/hda8) failed to mount, subsequently I have tried reiserfsck w
>ith
> > most options and a newer linux kernel to no avail. See below for
>a log
> > of what I have tried and the output it generated.
> >
> > Could anyone suggest any way in which I can retrieve some/all o
>f my
> > files?
> >
> > BTW, my file meta data retrieved by the command listed at the bott
>om of
> > this email is downloadable from:
> > http://www.deakin.edu.au/~ddp/meta_data_for_hda8.gz
> >
> >
> > root@pug:~$ mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda8 /mnt/restore/
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8,
> > or too many mounted file systems
>
>Any messages in the kernel log (/var/log/messages) at this point?
>
Yes, sorry should have added it:
Feb 24 14:10:38 pug kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:08) ...
Feb 24 14:10:40 pug kernel: journal-1204: REPLAY FAILURE fsck required! Trying to
replay onto a log block
Feb 24 14:10:40 pug kernel: Replay Failure, unable to mount
Feb 24 14:10:40 pug kernel: reiserfs_read_super: unable to initialize journal sp
ace
Regards,
Damien
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Dr Damien De Paoli Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Programmer Phone: +61 3 5227 8842
Information Technology Services
Deakin University
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