Hi,
our reiserfs partition that holds our institutions mails got corrupted
(27GB). A colleague that was around tried to recover it but failed. So he
changed the filesystem to ext2 in /etc/fstab and rebooted. the partition
came up but with some of its folders and files corrupted, some folders have
become executables with strange owners and permissions that dont respond to
cp, chmod, chown or mv commands.
We created an image of the corrupted files onto an ext2 partition and
tried to repair it but files in lost+found had strange filenames.
We created another image file onto a remote host reiserfs partition using (
ssh corrupthost dd if=/dev/sda1 conv=noerror > sda1.img) and did the
following:
losetup /dev/loop0 sda1.img
reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/loop0
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/loop0
but it failes with "No reiserfs metadata" found error and the log file
contains
####### Pass 0 #######
Could not find hash in use. Using "r5"
####### Pass 1 #######
####### Pass 2 #######
Please advise.
Thanks
Dru
