-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-02-05 at 22:36 +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Carlos E. R.> <> wrote:
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
:-)
I would not argue about my memory, it fails sometimes :-(. But I never use ext3 after some years ago (while I was using RH9.0 with ext3) my HD (the same one BTW) got corrupted. I switched then to ReiserFS and use only it on all my Linux boxes since.
I like reiserfs, but I have been bitten by all types of filesystems. None is fully reliable. Currently I tend to use ext3 for the root partition, and reiserfs or xfs for data partitions. On single partition systems I use reiserfs with a separate boot as ext2.
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.
It's a fact that even after I tried to re-create reiser superblock on /dev/sda8 and Gparted now shows this partition as reiser, mount indicates it as ext3 and I can still see the files. I'm puzzled, to say the least...
I don't know why gparted says that. You could also try: file -s /dev/sda7 Perhaps there is something at the start of the partition that "look" like reiserfs. I would backup all the data, then recreate the filesystem entirely (on those two partitions), by using "mkreiserfs" (don't forget to add a label). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktskxcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UDhgCcDfCGWoSoRVWpGU611YgpLbUW uDoAn1oOsdc2r/XfaW24fdqnFo5R6u/v =xLSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org