Re: Gnu Parted error, Kernel Panic, Reiserfs

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

Hello Alan,

On Sunday 11 April 2004 00:01, Alan Chu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to resize down my root partition using Gnu Parted, off of a boot
> disk. It failed midway, saying that there was an "invalid node". After
> rebooting, I get kernel panic:
>
> -----
> sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,9)
> XFS: bad magic number
> XFS: SB validate failed
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:09
> -----
>
> I checked my partitions, and their numbers haven't changed (hda1 is still
> hda1, hda2 is still hda2, etc.) so /etc/fstab should be fine.
>
> I searched around on the Gentoo forums, but most answers involve someone
> trying to install Gentoo. Before using parted, my gentoo worked fine. So,
> the kernel options should be correct.
>
> So I used the Linux "Recovery is Possible 6.9" boot disk, and ran
> "reiserfsck --check" on my /dev/hda9, which is my / partition. The output
> was the following:
>
> -----
> Replaying journal..
> No transactions found
> Checking internal tree..
> Bad root block 0.
> (--rebuild-tree did not complete)
> Aborted
> -----
>
> Funny thing is, I didn't run "--rebuild-tree" yet. So, next, I tried the
> "--rebuild-tree" option, since nothing is working, 

what does reiserfsck --check say now? Does it find any corruption?


-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman