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From: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Filesystem repair and Data Recovery
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:05:47 +0400
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To: Flora Dru <dru@dicts.mak.ac.ug>
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Hello

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:06, Flora Dru wrote:
> >> 
> >> our reiserfs partition that holds our institutions mails got corrupted 
> >> (27GB).
> > 
> > Can you please provide more details? Does it refuse to mount? Do you get
> > kernel warnings when you try to access files on it? Did it get
> > unreadable blocks? 
> > 
> It failed to mount the first time after a on normal shutdown and  reboot 
> that is when my colleague tried to repair using rebuild-tree it failed (i 
> unfortunately dont know what the errors were). This is when he modified the 
> fstab, set fs as ext2,

Sorry, I am confused. If filesystem is reiserfs it can not be mounted as
ext2.

please do
cat /proc/mounts 
and let us know what did it say.
Which partition contains reiserfs which got corrupted? Is it root
filesystem now?

>  rebooted and it worked however some of the files and 
> folders were corrupted with changed strange permissions and owners. See 
> below: 
> 
> ?--xr-S-wx  25390 1701015401 574452853 1747074414 Jul  1  2025 
> admin.mak.ac.ug
> ?r--rw--w-  14641 741476913 173227333 1162692948 Jun  3  1975 
> agric.mak.ac.ug
> ?--xr----t  29295 543258944 1933339936 1869572193 Oct 23  2030 
> bookshop.mak.ac.ug
> br-srw-r--  17418 925986415 959925040  54,  54 Jan  1  2018 mak.ac.ug 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Please run 
> > reiserfsck /dev/sda2
> > and let us know what does it say.
> > please make sure that you have the most recent reiserfsck with
> > reiserfsck -V. If it is not 3.6.19 - please upgrade:
> > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.tar.gz
> > 
> reiserfsck /dev/sdc1 failed when i tried it (thought it was bse 

bse==because?

> the partion 
> is now read as ext2), unfortunately i cant umount the partition because it 
> is on a production server and i cant reboot it now. But i will owrk on that 
> in the nite and post error message. 
> 
> My kernel is linux 2.4.19 and reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.tar.gz is recommended for 
> kernels 2.4.30 or later. Which one would your recommend for my kernel? 
> 
When you have chance - upgrade to 2.4.31.

> 
> Thanks again
> Florence 
> 
>