Re: Crash again!

[Ookhoi <ookhoi@humilis.net>]

Francois-Rene Rideau wrote (ao):
> After the hardware crash, the software crash!
> 
> I added RAM to my workstation and rebooted.
> Big mistake: I had stopped the machine with swsusp instead of a plain
> halt. By the time I realized it, it was too late.
> swsusp recover failed because the RAM size didn't match.
> Now the reiserfs partition is half-unmounted,
> and trying to mount results in an endless loop
> as reiserfs tries to replay the journal.
> 
> Is the partition recoverable? Can the data be retrieved?
> Should I try reiserfsck or not?

That would be the first thing to try :-)

> Should I try to get swsusp to recover the same state and do its thing,
> or is it too late?

This will not do anything good to your filesystem.

> Should I run to the shop where I sent my previous hardware-crashed
> disk so that they don't actually send the disk back to manufacturer
> for exchange?

A shop will be of no help in this case (or at least here; the shop
people have exactly zero clue; yours could be better though). There is a
very good change that you will be able to solve this yourself. Run the
latest reiserfsck (in this case, I would run the latest -pre, as I
didn't read bad things about it on the list and it is already 7 weeks
old).

Good luck!

PS, in cases like these, I notice a nice warm feeling when I hug my
backups. You should try it too. You might never need them, but then
again, _if_ you need them, they suddenly mean much more to you than you
could have ever thought a bunch of zipped files would do.