Re: reiserfsprogs: options for recovering from reiserfsck/"Not enough allocable blocks"

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

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hi vladimir,

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:19 +0300, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> You should setup a linear raid (IMPORTANT: with no persistent super block) of /dev/mapper/vg0-backup and some spare device.
> Spare device does not have to be big. I do not think that you can not find 50mb of disk space to create a loop device on that space.
> Then you have to run --rebuild-sb and --rebuild-tree
> 
> See more details at http://www.mail-archive.com/reiserfs-list@namesys.com/msg21597.html

thanks for this.  it's less complicated than i thought.  i'll report
back tomorrow morning/afternoon after i've had the chance to run it.

> > (2) reiserfsprogs 3.6.20, which may have a fix?  doesn't look released
> > yet, and i'm not sure how stable/dangerous it is.
> > 
> 3.6.20 does not have a fix for that bug.
> 
> > also, i've heard mention of --scan-whole-partition.  would that be
> > advisable in this situation with 3.6.19?  
> 
> no

thanks for the clarifications on these, saves me some time and possible
fs corruption :)



	sean

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