From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Worley Subject: Re: SUSE 9.1 with ReiserFS: / won't fsck, but is otherwise fine Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:40:02 -0600 Message-ID: <1096324801.9096.41.camel@xserver.local.net> References: <1095996040.10293.18.camel@xserver.local.net> <200409241116.09066.vitaly@namesys.com> <1096032016.17001.4.camel@xserver.local.net> <200409271844.11580.vitaly@namesys.com> <1096301165.9096.14.camel@xserver.local.net> <41589155.1050405@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41589155.1050405@gmx.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: evilninja Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.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