On Sunday 05 March 2006 22:07, Harald Weigl wrote:
> Hello!
Hello
> I ended up in quite a mess. What has happened was:
> - The file system ran full while copying CF-Card with pictures I took and
> started to give a lot of error messages, some of them telling me that
> fixing can only be done using "--rebuild-tree".
> - I freed 10GB of disk space and first ran a --check and then a
> --fix-fixable on the (unmounted) partition.
> - As that went fine, I started a --rebuild-tree, which aborted twice.
do you see anything related in the syslog?
> Please find the logs for the correction runs attached.
>
> reiserfsck -V says:
> reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)
>
> I'm running a Debian Etch (up to date) with the Debian standard kernel
> Linux sydney 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> The system itself is a 1 GHz P3 with 512MB RAM used as a server with an
> average load about 0.2. Hard disks are in pairs (RAID0) through a 3Ware
> Escalade 8508 SATA Controller. The failing partition is located on a pair new
> 300GB SATA-Drives, the Controller does not report any problems.
>
> The partition is about 300GB in size and holds a lot of big files (~50MBytes).
>
> I hope you can make sense of what I send you. If I shall provide further
> information, please reply.
>
> In the end I have two questions:
> - Is there a way to regain access to the partition again to save as much of
> the contents as possible (I'll be getting me another set of harddisks this
> week)?
> - I simply copied about 900M of pictures from a CF-card. Is there anything I
> should have considered (or consider in the future)?
would you run:
debugreiserfs -p <device> | bzip2 -c > <device>bz2
and provide the result for downloading? I have an improved reiserfsprogs
version, although it is not a reslease yet, so I prefere to check how it
works on metadata first.
--
Vitaly
