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

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