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?
It failed to mount the first time after a on normal shutdown and reboot
that is when my colleague tried to repair using rebuild-tree it failed (i
unfortunately dont know what the errors were). This is when he modified the
fstab, set fs as ext2, rebooted and it worked however some of the files and
folders were corrupted with changed strange permissions and owners. See
below:
?--xr-S-wx 25390 1701015401 574452853 1747074414 Jul 1 2025
admin.mak.ac.ug
?r--rw--w- 14641 741476913 173227333 1162692948 Jun 3 1975
agric.mak.ac.ug
?--xr----t 29295 543258944 1933339936 1869572193 Oct 23 2030
bookshop.mak.ac.ug
br-srw-r-- 17418 925986415 959925040 54, 54 Jan 1 2018 mak.ac.ug
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
reiserfsck /dev/sdc1 failed when i tried it (thought it was bse the partion
is now read as ext2), unfortunately i cant umount the partition because it
is on a production server and i cant reboot it now. But i will owrk on that
in the nite and post error message.
My kernel is linux 2.4.19 and reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.tar.gz is recommended for
kernels 2.4.30 or later. Which one would your recommend for my kernel?
Thanks again
Florence
