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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: on-disk bitmap does not match to the correct one
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:53:10 +0400
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To: Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>
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Hello!

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:09:56AM +0800, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> > Bitmaps are maps with which FS is tracking blocks usage.
> > If you are running kernel 2.4.16 or older, this might be because
> > some aplication deleted some files, but still have the files open,
> > andthen crash occured.
> > 2.4.16 or earlier kernels are not recommended to use.
> I have been using 2.4.19-pre5, though I had a couple of crashes over the
> years with earlier 2.4.x kernels.
> So what should/can I do about this mismatch?

Get latest reiserfsprogs package (3.x.1b) and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree
on your partition.

Bye,
    Oleg