Hi, I can home about two weeks ago and found my media box locked up. I was able to discover that it had filled up its /dev/md2 partition (mounted on /home) which surprised me because it is 550 gigs. Perhaps mythtv went nuts and used it all up. It was only a temporary thing I was going to move mythtv to another partition anyway and boy I wish I had now :-P.
Anyway I rebooted and the fsck said I had to run rebuild-tree. So I ran that and a few days later it said "out of disk space, aborted". I can't mount the partition it says "No folder found I believe". I tried it a few times with both the reiserfsprogs from etch: ii reiserfsprogs 3.6.19-2 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems and the latest ones downloaded from the website (3.6.19). I am currently trying it with the -S option. I'm running a custom 2.6.12 kernel which is basically the same as the default debian one except it includes some drivers for my dvico fusion tv tuner. I read that the best way to fix this problem is to dd to a bigger partition but there is really no easy way for me to do that - it will probably involve me purchasing 2x300gig partitions, raiding them, then performing the restore. Please let me know if there is a way I can fix this without going to a bigger partition. Here is output of the fsck: """ fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree /dev/md2 reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** Do not run the program with --rebuild-tree unless ** ** something is broken and MAKE A BACKUP before using it. ** ** If you have bad sectors on a drive it is usually a bad ** ** idea to continue using it. Then you probably should get ** ** a working hard drive, copy the file system from the bad ** ** drive to the good one -- dd_rescue is a good tool for ** ** that -- and only then run this program. ** ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to [email protected], ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will rebuild the filesystem (/dev/md2) tree Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes Replaying journal.. Reiserfs journal '/dev/md2' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed ########### reiserfsck --rebuild-tree started at Mon Jul 17 21:41:44 2006 ########### Pass 0: ####### Pass 0 ####### Loading on-disk bitmap .. ok, 116676032 blocks marked used Skipping 11771 blocks (super block, journal, bitmaps) 116664261 blocks will be read 0%....20%....block 85875092: The number of items (256) is incorrect, should be (1) - corrected block 85875092: The free space (1) is incorrect, should be (208) - corrected pass0: vpf-10110: block 85875092, item (0): Unknown item type found [33488896 65537 0x100 ??? (15)] - deleted left 0, 15065 /seccseccccc 108413 directory entries were hashed with "r5" hash. "r5" hash is selected Flushing..finished Read blocks (but not data blocks) 116664261 Leaves among those 87768646 - leaves all contents of which could not be saved and deleted 1 Objectids found 108417 Pass 1 (will try to insert 87768645 leaves): ####### Pass 1 ####### Looking for allocable blocks .. finished 0%....20%....40%..Not enough allocable blocks, checking bitmap...there are 1 allocable blocks, btw out of disk space Aborted """
