Just got the new MDK 9.1 and installed it on a multi-boot machine. MDK 9.1 uses EXT3 with HTREE support enabled from e2fsprogs 1.32. SuSE 8.1 uses e2fsprogs 1.28 with htree disabled (and some patches). So I fixed that and upgraded the 1.28 patches to the 1.32 release. Works fine. I couldn't find any web references as to where to send patches or SRPMS that are SuSE-specific. Anyone at SuSE interested? Send me a URL or email on where to send it. Mike808/ --------------------------------------------- http://www.valuenet.net
* mike808@users.sourceforge.net (mike808@users.sourceforge.net) [030408 19:51]:
I couldn't find any web references as to where to send patches or SRPMS that are SuSE-specific.
You can post the url at http://www.suse.com/feedback . Unfortunately, we don't have the time right now contributed packages so I can't put them ftp.suse.com for you. -- -ckm
I recently had my hard disk go bad. It was set up as /boot in partition 0, swap in partition 1, and root in partition 2 formatted with reiserfs. The failure was that partition 2, the root partition, could not be read during boot. I installed another hard disk, reinstalled my system, and I would like very much to recover some of the files on the failed disk. It is now /dev/hdb, I can mount partition 0, but I cannot mount partition 2 where all the data are. Is there any method or trick to recover any of the data in the partition given that I am unable to mount it? Thanks, Henry Harpending
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:32, Henry Harpending wrote:
I recently had my hard disk go bad. It was set up as /boot in partition 0, swap in partition 1, and root in partition 2 formatted with reiserfs. The failure was that partition 2, the root partition, could not be read during boot.
I installed another hard disk, reinstalled my system, and I would like very much to recover some of the files on the failed disk. It is now /dev/hdb, I can mount partition 0, but I cannot mount partition 2 where all the data are.
Is there any method or trick to recover any of the data in the partition given that I am unable to mount it?
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Hi Henry, Next time start a new thread with your question please! Did you ever try to repair it with a fsck / fsck.reiserfs ? This always worked fine for me, I used it a few times already, all data back, no need to reinstall. HTH, Matt T.
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:54:15PM +0700, Matt T. wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:32, Henry Harpending wrote:
I recently had my hard disk go bad. It was set up as /boot in partition 0, swap in partition 1, and root in partition 2 formatted with reiserfs. The failure was that partition 2, the root partition, could not be read during boot.
I installed another hard disk, reinstalled my system, and I would like very much to recover some of the files on the failed disk. It is now /dev/hdb, I can mount partition 0, but I cannot mount partition 2 where all the data are.
Is there any method or trick to recover any of the data in the partition given that I am unable to mount it?
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Hi Henry,
Next time start a new thread with your question please!
Did you ever try to repair it with a fsck / fsck.reiserfs ?
This always worked fine for me, I used it a few times already, all data back, no need to reinstall.
I have tried reiserfsck on the partition, even with the scary options like --rebuild-tree, and it always aborts with this message: bread: Cannot read a block # 18153472. If I could somehow persuade it to ignore the file on this block perhaps I could recover the rest. Thanks, Henry Harpending
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 22:03, Henry Harpending wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:54:15PM +0700, Matt T. wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:32, Henry Harpending wrote:
I recently had my hard disk go bad. It was set up as /boot in partition 0, swap in partition 1, and root in partition 2 formatted with reiserfs. The failure was that partition 2, the root partition, could not be read during boot.
I installed another hard disk, reinstalled my system, and I would like very much to recover some of the files on the failed disk. It is now /dev/hdb, I can mount partition 0, but I cannot mount partition 2 where all the data are.
Is there any method or trick to recover any of the data in the partition given that I am unable to mount it?
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Hi Henry,
Next time start a new thread with your question please!
Did you ever try to repair it with a fsck / fsck.reiserfs ?
This always worked fine for me, I used it a few times already, all data back, no need to reinstall.
I have tried reiserfsck on the partition, even with the scary options like --rebuild-tree, and it always aborts with this message:
bread: Cannot read a block # 18153472.
That looks bad, I had that once on a broken disk, which I had to throw away. It was not a reiserfs problem, but a physical problem on the hdd. But your idea sounds good, If that is the only problem. However sorry, I do not know how to instruct reiserfs to ignore it.
If I could somehow persuade it to ignore the file on this block perhaps I could recover the rest.
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Regards, Matt T.
mike808@users.sourceforge.net [Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:23:27 GMT]:
Anyone at SuSE interested? Send me a URL or email on where to send it.
Normally the answer would be http://www.suse.com/feedback. But as I'm maintaining e2fsprogs I can tell you that I've done the update to 1.32 and htree will be enabled. Mind you, this is for the next version of SuSE Linux as we don't do version updates for released distributions. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de
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