On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 21:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Friday, 2010-02-05 at 21:36 +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote:
I have strange problem with my home OpenSUSE 11.0 machine.
Machine has dual boot configuration - Win2000 (not used for long time) and OpenSuSE 11.0. HD is Maxtore, 60 GB. The first partition is primary FAT, then I have Extended partition, and inside this I have another FAT partition, then linux swap (/dev/sda6) and 2 reiserfs partitions - / (dev/sda7) and /home (/dev/sda8).
Something happened yesterday. One thing was power failure, but I can hardly explain observed behavior by physical problem. The disk was OK, smart monitor never complained. When I turned computer on, the system reported that the sda7 is Ext3 FS, tried to check file system, reported inconsistency and dropped to maintenance mode. sda8 is also recognized as Ext3.
In maintenance mode, / looks normal. I can check files and everything is there.Commands and utilities from this disk work. When I manually mount /home - all files are there and look OK. Windows is working OK.
Using some rescue tools I was able to copy home directory and all important information from / to different computer (no errors reported while copying files).
I assume that dev/sda7 and dev/sda8 are mounted at this moment in time. If you issue the command "mount" and you see those partitions reported as ext3, and you can copy the files, and they are not corrupted, there is no doubt: those filesystems are ext3, not reiserfs - regardless what your memory says >:-)
Now I tried reiserfsck on sda8 and it reported no superblock present. I tried to re-create it and re-check and reiserfsck now complained
If you try to repair them as reiserfs, you will utterly destroy them, as they are not reiserfs. If you want them as reiser, reformat, and copy the data back.
Unless you have more disks or more partitions and you didn't know. Or a filesystem loop mounted on top of another, but that needs some doing.
Wonder what's in /etc/fstab. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org