Re: on-disk bitmap does not match to the correct one

[Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>]

Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 05:09:56AM +0800, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> > > Bitmaps are maps with which FS is tracking blocks usage.
> > > If you are running kernel 2.4.16 or older, this might be because
> > > some aplication deleted some files, but still have the files open,
> > > andthen crash occured.
> > > 2.4.16 or earlier kernels are not recommended to use.
> > I have been using 2.4.19-pre5, though I had a couple of crashes over the
> > years with earlier 2.4.x kernels.
> > So what should/can I do about this mismatch?
>
> Get latest reiserfsprogs package (3.x.1b) and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree
> on your partition.

Beautiful!  It worked!  While I was at it, I did a lot of LVM volume resizing,
and at one stage lost the root directory of my /var/ftp partition, but
thankfully (wipes panicky sweat from brow!!!!), reiserfsck --rebuild-tree
rebuilt it successfully.

The spec file in the tarball made building an RPM package a snap; it's really
well written.

Thank you very much, Oleg.  As we say in Australia, "Your blood's worth
bottling!" :-)

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