[Bug 230720] New: OpenSuse 10.2 changed my reiserfs to ext3 on my hd and destroyed partition table on usb disk
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 Summary: OpenSuse 10.2 changed my reiserfs to ext3 on my hd and destroyed partition table on usb disk Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 5 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: oouc@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com A 300 MB USB hard disk that has backed up many systems is unreachable since plugged it in while running openSuse 10.2. I was multi-booting on my internal hd under Windows and many linux updates. I installed openSuse 10.2 on a partition that had previously used openSuse 10.1, some beta releases of openSuse 10.2, and finally Edubuntu. This partition was reiserfs. After I installed openSuse 10.2, booting my old Ubuntu from a different partition always failed to mount the two reiserfs partitions on my internal hd. I finally discovered that both of these partitions had been changed to ext3. No problem with the internal hd. I just changed the /etc/fstab from reiserfs on these two partitions and everything on that hd showed up again. But, I have a really big problem with an external USB hd with all of my backups. It had reiserfs partitions on it. I had previously been running openSuse 10.2 and the USB cable got caught and disconnected while OpenSuse 10.2 had the red in use led lit up. In fact it should not have been using the external hd at all. Bottom line is OpenSuse 10.2 destroyed the partition table on the external usb disk. Now any Linux just sees /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 ... /dev/sda8. What can I do to recover my year's of work on that hd? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 oouc@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |oouc@yahoo.com Priority|P5 - None |P1 - Urgent Version|RC 5 |Final ------- Comment #1 from oouc@yahoo.com 2006-12-24 23:46 MST ------- I was running the gold master not rc5 when this problem happened. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 ------- Comment #2 from tito@titoinc.com 2006-12-25 03:18 MST ------- If Suse 10.2 can't read it not much can. This is more technical support than a bug. If you do believe there is an error within the OS that caused this then we will need something else to go by, anything more specific? Furthermore I'm not sure it will be easy to make a patch for a 'bug' experienced whilst removing a disc against the computers will. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |oouc@yahoo.com ------- Comment #3 from mhorvath@novell.com 2007-01-03 07:04 MST ------- You can try to recover your reiserfs partition table using the reiserfsck: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Hardware/ReiserFS_Data_Recovery_... http://blog.air4web.com/reiserfs-data-recovery.html Anyway please attach your yast logs, to let us see what happened. http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 oouc@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |oouc@yahoo.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|oouc@yahoo.com | ------- Comment #4 from oouc@yahoo.com 2007-01-04 06:04 MST ------- Thanks for your help. I thought about running reiserfsck but I did not not want to take a chance that Suse might mess it up worse. I erased Suse 10.2 and installed Ubuntu 6.10. The hd has not given any more problems since Ubuntu stepped in. I'll be watching to see if there is a reason to run Suse again. There were some things I really liked in Suse 10.1 and I had intended to make it my major OS. Bill Gates promised another full version of Windows years ago for my pointing out several bugs. But I never got it. I have made honesty and concern for others my #1 and #2 reasons for choosing an OS. Thanks, oouc -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 ------- Comment #5 from aj@novell.com 2007-02-01 06:07 MST ------- Regarding your report: If you format a partition, yast will choose ext3 now. The installation summary clearly shows this and tells you what to do. If you disconnect a harddisk while it's running, you can loose data. There's not much we can do here. Looking at your final comment: Let's close this as fixed now. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230720 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #6 from aj@novell.com 2007-05-04 01:02 MST ------- see last comment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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