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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: --rebuild-tree
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:56:18 +0400
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To: Cami <camis@mweb.co.za>
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Hello

Cami wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Last night i done monthly maintence on all of my
> mailhosts and after doing a reiserfsck, it looks
> like i'll have to rebuild the tree on one of my
> mail clusters (the other 8 clusters were fine)..
> 
> [mailhost01][/root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/emcpowera1       152G   35G  117G  23% /var/spool/virtual
> 
> Can anyone tell me roughly how dangerous this is

it is not dangerous. Just, please, make sure you have recent reiserfsck.

> and roughly how long something like this will take?

hard to say. It depends on hardware. Given that 35 gb is not too much 
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree should not take too much. 2 hours? Vitaly may 
want to correct me, though

> The filesystem stores all the users mailboxes in
> maildir format so there are millions of files..
> 
> Any tips/comments would be appreciated..
> 

PS: please do not forget that backuping is important when dealing with 
user mailboxes even if you are running super reliable hardward and 
bugless software.

> Regards,
> Cami
> 
> 
>