Re: SUSE 9.1 with ReiserFS: / won't fsck, but is otherwise fine

[Chris Worley <cworley@symbionsys.com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:16, evilninja wrote:
> ah, now this is funny. dd doesn't care about the filesystem and can't even
> read the device. 
> this does not seem like a (reiser-)fs issue, more like a
> corrupted partition table / device

I agree that it's not a reiser issue... but, how did it get mounted in
the first place?

>  (if the data on
> /dev/mapper/system-lvol0 is not (!) important, you could play around with

I find the root partition an invaluable part of the system.  So, I'm not
going to destroy it on purpose.  I'm not quite sure how to boot without
a root partition ;)

I'm really looking for a non-destructive way to test/repair whatever has
happened.  The partitioning seems fine (an ext3 boot directory of a few
MB, an 8GB swap, and the root partition):

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1           5       40131   83  Linux
/dev/hda2               6         979     7823655   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3             980       30515   237247920   8e  Linux LVM

Chris