Hello On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:29, Flora Dru wrote: > Hi, > > our reiserfs partition that holds our institutions mails got corrupted > (27GB).
Can you please provide more details? Does it refuse to mount? Do you get kernel warnings when you try to access files on it? Did it get unreadable blocks? > 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. > Please run reiserfsck /dev/sda2 and let us know what does it say. please make sure that you have the most recent reiserfsck with reiserfsck -V. If it is not 3.6.19 - please upgrade: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.tar.gz > 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 >
