I screwed something up this morning trying to mount my sd card reader (that's for another email). What's happening now, is I can't boot all the way up and I get an error saying there's problems with /dev/hda4 and that I need to run fsck.reiserfs manually.
Having had this problem a month ago, I searched for my old emails and found what I thought I needed. The problem was that it was regarding my home directory (/dev/hda3) and not my root directory (/dev/hda4). I can't seem to fsck on the command line.
I booted from my CD (9.0) and went to repair installation. I then selected my /dev/hda4 for scanning and it came back saying I had problems with it. I clicked, make repairs and nothing happened. It just sat there. I clicked accept and still nothing happened.
Anyone have an idea on what I can try next? I'm not that familiar with fsck. Don't tell me about the man page, I tried and still don't get it. One other thing, during boot, I get an error with /dev/sdb and a ton of errors. I gather this was caused by my attempt to get my sd card reader working. Not sure if this has anything to do with my root problem. In general, fsck can only be performed on unmounted filesystems. The one exception is the root partition, and it should be mounted read-only. However, Reiserfs will not perform other than minor repairs on a mounted root file system. The best way to fix a corrupted Reiserfs root is to boot the CD into the Rescue system, then run fsck (or reiserfsck) on the
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:59:36 -0800 (PST)