From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: Data corruption on reiserfs Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:02:56 +0400 Message-ID: <200210221502.56716.vitaly@namesys.com> References: <017001c27993$331f5500$0a00a8c0@nemesis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <017001c27993$331f5500$0a00a8c0@nemesis> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Torsten Scholz , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hi, On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:21, Torsten Scholz wrote: > Hi all, > > last time to get some help.... > > I have a data corruption on a rieserfs partition (80GB). After repair with > gpart and reiserfsck (-s --rebuild-tree) all the data seams to be restored, > but inside the files is only a small part of the original data. Can anyone > give some hints how to recover the whole data back? --scan-whole-partition is an expert option now because it is supposed to be used in some special cases only. What it does is it overwrites data in the tree with data found in unused space. It is useful if you occasionally have deleted some data or fsck has not recovered some and you want to get smth from unused space. But it could recover some useless stuff or even corrupt some other data, so you should backup all important data before using it. So, you have just recovered all found old data, which could overwrite some of your uptodate data. -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman