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Might be a corruption problem. Several have mentioned on these lists that a reiserfs partition that gets boogered and needs a reiserffchk usually drops into read-only mode, if not for the whole drive than some significant part of it.
So unmount it (boot with rescue cd if necessary) and run a check on it.
Thanks. Just did that and it reports no superblock. I ran the reiserfsck and applied fixes it suggested, but now most recent message is, "Bad root block 0. (--rebuild-tree did not complete)".
It is ok with me to re-write the filesystem to the drive if necessary to get a usable drive back, as I am not concerned about losing any of this data.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Richard
Had the same problem only a couple of weeks ago.
I followed the suggestion to run 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree' and it cleared up the trouble on the first run and without any loss of data. Your mileage may vary of course.
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...and it has. Just finished running that and it reports "Could not find a hash in use. Using "r5" Selected hash ("r5") does not match to the hash set in the super block (not set). "r5" hash is selected Flushing..finished Read blocks (but not data blocks) 38760402 Leaves among those 0 Objectids found 2" Following some other suggestions after this I ran debugreiserfs and got a series of information and messages which included that the filesystem was not clean and that FATAL corruptions existed. There were also directions to move, offset, zero the superblock... none of which I am about to do, having only the vaguest notion of what this is all about. Vague, uh, I know I have read about this somewhere so it is not total greek to me, but pretty close. What would be the best way to simply start the disk over? That is, in windows-speak, re-format the drive? I assume I could do that by re-starting the installation from the CD/DVD's, and leaving all partitions alone except the one I want to re-do, but it also seems there must be a more direct way, thus I had looked at man hdparm, but it did not seem particularly direct to doing this. I am sure I have missed something. Richard