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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: fsck mode halfway between --fix-fixable and --rebuild-tree ?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:15:12 +0400
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello!

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:12:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Let's be more clear.  You must use the -S option to get it to behave in 
> the way you do not want.  Don't use -S, and it does what you want it to do.

In fact I want to stress that -S switch is not recommended to use by any
means on real filesystems. If you are really sure you need -S switch,
do a snapshot of the partition and run reiserfsck on that snapshot just to
prevent possible data loss/data corruption.

Bye,
    Oleg