Re: Failed ReiserFS

[Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@norweb.se>]

On Monday 14 February 2005 21.33, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 13.06, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> > On Monday 14 February 2005 14:24, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 February 2005 08.57, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 10 February 2005 22.03, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> > > > > > > > reiserfsck 3.6.13
> > > > > > > > I used -S to scan the whole partition, as per man page
> > > > > > > > A bug heh.. :(
> > > > > > > > So is there any fix for it?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Please try latest reiserfsck.
> > > > > > > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.ta
> > > > > > >r. gz
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Same problem:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  lost+found.c 348 pass_3a_look_for_lost
> > > > > > look_for_lost: The entry 'lost+found' could not be found in the
> > > > > > root directory Aborted
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is getting more than frustrating...
> > > > >
> > > > > would you pack the metadata with
> > > > > 	debugreiserfs -p <device> | bzip2 -c > <device>-meta.bz2
> > > > > and provide them for downloading?
> > > >
> > > > the metadata and reiserfsck log are both available for download.
> > > >
> > > > ftp://ftp.rikjoh.com/reisercheck.logfile.bz2
> > > > ftp://ftp.rikjoh.com/hdc1-meta.bz2
> > >
> > > Moved the disks to another computer with a clean install of Linux.
> > > Reran the --rebuild-tree on that one. And i still get the same error
> > > "look_for_lost: The entry 'lost+found' could not be found in the root"
> > > And its the "reiserfs-3.6.13" package.
> > > Still no luck :(
> > >
> > > Why cant it find the /lost+found ?
> >
> > no problem with your metadata.
> > Are you sure you run reiserfsck 3.6.19?
> > Did you obtain reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 from our ftp site?
> > Would you check the memory on the computer you run reiserfsck
> > on and would you check the harddrive for bad blocks?
>
> Just ran 3.6.19 on the fresh installed computer
> Same error.
>
> ---<screen dump>---
>
> Will rebuild the filesystem (/dev/hdc1) tree
> Will put log info to '/root/reisercheck.logfile'
>
> Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you
> do):Yes Replaying journal..
> Reiserfs journal '/dev/hdc1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
> ###########
> reiserfsck --rebuild-tree started at Mon Feb 14 21:05:44 2005
> ###########
>
> Pass 0:
> The whole partition (7504544 blocks) is to be scanned
> Skipping 8440 blocks (super block, journal, bitmaps) 7496104 blocks will be
> read
> 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%                        left 0,
> 4848 /sec
>         "r5" hash is selected
> Flushing..finished
>         Read blocks (but not data blocks) 7496104
>                 Leaves among those 15551
>                         - leaves all contents of which could not be saved
> and deleted 7
>                 Objectids found 8831
>
> Pass 1 (will try to insert 15544 leaves):
> Looking for allocable blocks .. finished
> 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%                         left 0,
> 420 /sec
> Flushing..finished
>         15544 leaves read
>                 13485 inserted
>                 2059 not inserted
>         non-unique pointers in indirect items (zeroed) 25597
>
> Pass 2:
> 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%                        left 0,
> 2059 /sec
> Flushing..finished
>         Leaves inserted item by item 2059
> Pass 3 (semantic):
> Flushing..finished
>         Files found: 4302
>         Directories found: 356
>         Broken (of files/symlinks/others): 3
>         Files with fixed size: 1
>         Names pointing to nowhere (removed): 111
> Pass 3a (looking for lost dir/files):
> Looking for lost directories:
> Looking for lost files:
> lost+found.c 348 pass_3a_look_for_lost
> look_for_lost: The entry 'lost+found' could not be found in the root
> directory.
> Aborted
>
> ---<end screendump>---

Question: The /lost+found;  Is that directory created by the check or is it 
supposed to be present
As far as i have seen all my installs with reiserfs; None contains that 
folder.
I am making another run with a "selfmade" /lost+found, to see if it makes any 
difference this time.



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         /Rikard

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