Re: Corruption: --fix-fixable results in all nlink values = 0

[Gerrit Hannaert <degerrit@web.de>]

On Thursday 15 August 2002 21:44, Stefan Fleiter wrote:
> Hi Vitaly!
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> > Ah, I guess I know what happened. I think you have some fatal corruptions
> > and rebuild-tree is required. In this case check and fix-fixable do not
> > perform semantic check.
>
> Then reiserfsck should not start in fix-fixable mode when rebuild-tree is
> required.
> People think that fix-fiable is less dangerous. You have shown in some
> situations it is the other way round...
>
> I propos a new reiserfsck version with only this fix included!
>
> Greets,
> Stefan


I admit the warning in the man page wasn't scary enough to me and led me to 
believe it was less dangerous, and thus worth a try first. It also seems
better to me to not allow fix-fixable to run in situations where it will not run 
properly (ie where a rebuild-tree is required)

Ciao,
- Gerrit

"--fix-fixable
This option recovers certain kinds of corruption that do not require  rebuilding  the  entire  file  system  tree
(--rebuild-tree).  Normally you only need this option if the --check option reports "corruption that can be fixed
with --fix-fixable". This includes: zeroing invalid data-block pointers, correcting  st_size  and  st_blocks  for
directories, and deleting invalid directory entries."