Re: Fixing corrupt reiserfs partition when it registers as full

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

Brian G. Olson wrote:

>Okay, I've got a reiserfs partition that went bad. I'm don't know how,
>but for some reason the partition became completely full.  Showing up as
>100% full using df -h. However checking all the files on the partition
>(using du -shc) it should have been a little more than half full (2.4G
>partition), just as I remember df -h showing the last time I checked. So
>I unmounted it, and checked with reiserfsck --check.  Sure enough, it
>said I had a problem and told me to do use --rebuild-tree.  Okay, I do
>that and pass 1 completes. Then on pass 2 it says it wants to add a
>bunch of leaves (on the order of 10,000 leaves), but of course the
>partition registers as full so it fails. That is where I am currently
>stuck. I can't even mount it anymore, mount says it's 'not a directory'. 
>
>I'm currently using reiserfsck version 3.6.6 from the Knoppix v3.2 cd.
>Now I'm gonna try to find a newer version to use, but in the mean time,
>if anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate it. Thanks
>
>Brian
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Have you backuped you data first?

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Yury Umanets
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