On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Vahe Avedissian <vyav@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Folks,

I was trying to install; opensuse 11 b1 on a spare partition, and among some of the issues I had was it recognized my drives in a different order than the 10.3 version on my main partition. Needless to say, I have one huge data partition (~ 2TB) which now comes up at 47.4GB !

running reiserfsck --check outputs:

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes bread: Cannot read the block (549304511): (Invalid argument).

reiserfs_open: Your partition is not big enough to contain the filesystem of (549304511) blocks as was specified in the found super block. Failed to open the filesystem.

If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with --rebuild-sb.

running reiserfsck --rebuilt-sb asks me if I used resizer. I did not knowingly nor intentionally run anything on this partition. I also don't know what tool resizer is (is it part of yast-->partitioner-->resize partition ?). What do I answer, and how can I repair this partition?

Thanks in advance.

Vahe Avedissian

Hi John,

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Before anyone can help, you have to be clear that you really do have data on that partition and that it really is a Reiser partition.

This is a ~2TB partiton on a 3TB 3ware raid array. This is/was a working partition (about 60% free) that was fine untill I tried to install opensuse 11b1 on some other partition on another raid array unsuccessfully. I do not blame the install process but I did notice that when I tried to boot my "working" 11.3 installation this specific partition was showing up as a 47.4GB reiser filesystem partition.

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Things that you said at the beginning seem to imply you are nor quite clear that this partition is Reiser, or that you might have clobbered one of your existing partitions due to the order the disks were recognized by the system.

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There are tools which can recover reiser partitions most of the time but its pretty unclear what happened.

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A little specificity may help.

Please let me know if I need to provide further details. Thanks, Vahe ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org