Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1528 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

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:
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> > 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).
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> 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 >:-)
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> 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.

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