Re: Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 21:32, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>reiserfstune -s 1024 /dev/xxxx
> > 
> > I had reiserfsprogs 3.6.11 and reiserfstune (above command) made my /dev/sdc3
> > unmountable without -t reiserfs. I upgraded reiserfsprogs to 3.6.19 and now
> > reiserfsck /dev/sdc3 reports no problems, but mount problem persists:
> > 
> > # mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdc3 /.3
> > # umount /.3
> > # mount /dev/sdc3 /.3
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > # dmesg | tail -3
> > br: port 1(ifi) entering forwarding state
> > FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc3.
> > 
> > "chown -Rc <n>:<m> ." now does not OOM kill the box, so this issue
> > is resolved, thanks!
> > 
> > Can I restore sdc3 somehow that I won't need -t reiserfs in mount command?
> > You can find result of
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/sdc3 of=1m bs=1M count=1
> > 
> > at http://195.66.192.167/linux/1m
> 
> At the risk of stating the obvious:
> 1 - is reaser a module, and is it loaded?
> 2 - did this ever work? I think you said you removed the entry from 
> fstab, was the filetype there which made it work?

1 - not a module, 2 - fstab line was "/dev/sdc3 /.3 auto noatime,rw 1 1".
But anyway. mount problem is solved now, mount from util-linux 2.11p
tried to "autodetect" fs and thought it's a FAT partition.

mount from busybox 1.0 works.
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vda