Re: Filesystem repair and Data Recovery

[Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:35, Flora Dru wrote:
> > please do
> > cat /proc/mounts 
> > and let us know what did it say.
> 
> cat /proc/mounts returns 
> 
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> /dev/sda2 /boot reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sda10 /home reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sda9 /data reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sda8 /opt reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sda6 /usr reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sda7 /var reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sdd1 /home/popmail reiserfs rw 0 0
> shmfs /dev/shm shm rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb5 /home/popmail/tech.mak.ac.ug reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb6 /home/popmail/agric.mak.ac.ug reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb7 /home/popmail/educ.mak.ac.ug reiserfs rw 0 0
> /dev/sdc1 /mnt ext2 rw 0 0 
> 
ls -l /mnt?


> The corrupted partition /dev/sdc1. 
> 
> > Which partition contains reiserfs which got corrupted? Is it root
> > filesystem now?
> 
> It was initially a reiserfs as i told you and he remounted it as ext2. It is 
> not a root filesystem it is a storage partition 
> 

Can you umount /dev/sdc1 or remount readonly?

> >> > 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
> >> > 
> 
> Meanwhile I've run reiserfsck /dev/loop0 (an image of the corrupted 
> filesystem that we transfered to another host) to which i get the error
> Bad root block 4294967295. (--rebuild-tree did not complete) 
> 
> And reiserfsck  --rebuild-tree /dev/loop0 fails with No reiserfs metadata 
> found 
> 
> thanks again 
> 
> 
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