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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Procedure to recover a bad superblock
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:41:34 +0400
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To: "John P. New" <jnew@hazelden.ca>
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Hello!

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:22:47AM -0400, John P. New wrote:

[...]

> Set flags in SB:
> Is this ok ? (y/n)[n]: y
> The fs may still be unconsistent. Run reiserfsck --check.
> And then I ran reiserfsck --check --logfile /root/rfscheck.log /dev/md1
> and got (edited):

[...]
 
> Bad root block 0. (--rebuild-tree did not complete)
> Aborted (core dumped)

> Now what? Is it time for a --rebuild-tree, or are we past that because
> of the 'Bad root block 0. (--rebuild-tree did not complete)' error?

Well, since your superblock was completely destroyed, we no longer know where rootblock is.
So you need to run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree now

Bye,
    Oleg