thx Oleg for your fast answer, I have another question too concerning this: actually I used badblocks as described on the reiserfs page. so now I know which blocks are bad, and I would like to use the utility add-bad-block. actually the exemple tells me to make a new reiserfs filesystem, then make whatever file I want, and 'assign those bad blocks to that file'. Actually I dont have the possibility to reformat my drive, and I have some files residings on the bad blocks. I would like to know what will happen if I use the add-bad-block program on my filesystem where those bad blocks are occupied by an already existing file. actually I'M aware of some files that are on those bad blocks, but I'm sure there are others that I dont know about. so if I use the add-bad-block program, will this work just fine, and will the bad blocks be deactived 'forever' or it will just wont work at all, for exemple when I try to delete afterwards a file that contained those blocks before. sorry if I have a bad english, regards, greg
ps: is there a possibility yet to set a different block size then the default, or this will only be implemented in reiser4. At 14:06 2002. 06. 05., you wrote: >Hello! > > If you want to look at the contents, you can extract the content into > a file with dd and then view it. > If you want to know if the block represents some FS metadata, > you can use debugreiserfs -1 blocknumber > and it will print the content of metadata block (if it will recognise > block contents as metadata) > > This only applies to reiserfs, of course. > >Bye, > Oleg >On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:58:20PM +0100, Newsmail wrote: > > I would like to know, if I know the blocknumber, is there any way to see > > what data I have on it? > > greg > > > >
