On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Carlos E. R.
On Friday, 2010-02-05 at 21:36 +0200, Mark Goldstein wrote:
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Something happened yesterday. One thing was power failure, but I can hardly explain observed behavior by physical problem. The disk was OK, smart monitor never complained. When I turned computer on, the system reported that the sda7 is Ext3 FS, tried to check file system, reported inconsistency and dropped to maintenance mode. sda8 is also recognized as Ext3.
In maintenance mode, / looks normal. I can check files and everything is there.Commands and utilities from this disk work. When I manually mount /home - all files are there and look OK. Windows is working OK.
Using some rescue tools I was able to copy home directory and all important information from / to different computer (no errors reported while copying files).
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.
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... -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org