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From: Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org>
Subject: Re: 3 corruptions found which can only be corrected via --rebuild-tree...
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:34:01 -0400
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On czwartek 18 lipiec 2002 11:20 am, Moritz Angermann wrote:
> ... so or a lil' bit different was
> the line reiserfsck told me.
> so can anyone give me a hand a
> reach me a step-by-step tutorial how
> to reiserfsck a root partition ?
> ( how to create a rescue disk i.e. - w/e is needed)

easiest way?

dd your partition to an empty one
boot to the copy
repair the main root
boot to the repaired root

I usually keep root small (3gigs or so), so it's quite doable then.

Kuba