No one ? On Wednesday 18 August 2004 17:06 pm, Melis van den Brink wrote: > Dear reiserfs-list readers, > > I'm following this list for a few years mostly in "lurker"-mode just to see > what happens with reiserfs. I've been using reiserfs (version 3) for many > years now without much problems. Up until now... :-(. > Last week I ran into diskspace problems and I decided to make a new volume > where I could place all my multimedia stuff (movies, audio and pictures). I > fdisk-ed a new disk and made few partitions. After that I used LVM 1.0.7 > (pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate) to get me some logical volumes and used > mkreiserfs (version 3.6.10) to get a filesystem on it. All looked well and > I started moving my data to those new filesystems. Even this looked ok up > until I experienced a locked-up system. No way to shut it down in a nice > way I was forced to power-down and power-up and that's where the shit > hitted the fan > > :-(. > > Recovery of my older filesystems worked like a charm but the newly made > stuff was nowhere in sight. In hindsight the only thing I could think of I > did wrong in making the new filesystems was I forgot to reboot after > fdisk-ing the disk. > It turned out that LVM couldn't find the newly created volume-group and the > logical volumes it contained. Subsequently neither could reiserfs find it's > (or rather my) precious filesystems. Using vgcfgrestore I eventually could > recover the LVM-data so that at least LVM was consistent again. The > reiserfs-filesystems however I just can't seem to get them back. Using > reiserfsck in --check, --rebuild-sb, --fix-fixable or --rebuild-tree-mode > eventually turned out in the following message: > No reiserfs metadata found. If you are sure that you had the > reiserfs on this partition, then the start of the partition might be > changed or all data were wiped out. The start of the partition may get > changed by a partitioner if you have used one. Then you probably rebuilt > the superblock as there was no one. Zero the block at 64K offset from the > start of the partition (a new super block you have just built) and try to > move the start of the partition a few cylinders aside and check if > debugreiserfs /dev/xxx detects a reiserfs super block. If it does this is > likely to be the right super block version. > If this makes you nervous, try www.namesys.com/support.html, and > for $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you > through it all. > > I tried some other suggestions in previous messages in this list, but > always came back to the above sequence of reiserfsck-commands. > > Could anybody please help (suggestions, examples, other commands) with this > annoying problem ? > I will happily supply other information (machine, kernel, versions, > filesystem-dumps) if needed.
-- Regards, Melis van den Brink
