Łukasz Mierzwa wrote: > Dnia Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:08:58 +0200, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: > >> Hello, >> will using >> >> fsck.reiser4 --build-fs >> >> result in data loss? I mean to fix the partition - NOT to lose the data >> on it.. >> >> The manual page is also not very specific about if data will be lost or >> not when using this option... >> >> Using --fix resulted in a message that I should use --build-fs to remove >> corruption... > > > You will probably end up with some amount of files in lost&found dir, > those will be the files that fsck can't recognize from what dir are > coming and what are named, depending on what corruption You have there > can always be some files that You won't get back. As always, backups > are a must have on any fs. > >
The hdd was full and a process was still trying to write and create new files... So I guess those files might end up in lost+found... Just want to make sure that --build-fs will not build a _new_ fs, meaning formatting the fs by formatting it?!? That wasn't very clear from what I'd read in the manual... Dirk
