From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ookhoi Subject: Re: Crash again! Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:57:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20030122065712.D5575@humilis> References: <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115142.B21932@namesys.com> <20030118100157.C5575@humilis> <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115142.B21932@namesys.com> <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115724.GA946@Kadath> <20030121213336.GA6756@hell.mine.nu> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030121213336.GA6756@hell.mine.nu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Francois-Rene Rideau Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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.