Re: SUSE 9.1 with ReiserFS: / won't fsck, but is otherwise fine

[evilninja <evilninja@gmx.net>]

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Chris Worley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 08:44, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> 
>>># ./fsck/reiserfsck  /dev/system/lvol0
>>>reiserfsck 3.6.18 (2003 www.namesys.com)
>>>
>>>Failed to open the device '/dev/system/lvol0': No such device or address
>>
>>it seems 
>>	open ('/dev/system/lvol0', O_RDONLY);
>>returns "No such device or address". You can check it with strace.
>>
>>what if you run
>>	reiserfsck /dev/mapper/system-lvol0
> 
> 
> 
>         The strace dies on the open:
> 
> ...
> open("/dev/mapper/system-lvol0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> ...
> 
>         Not even dd can open it:
>         
> # dd if=/dev/mapper/system-lvol0 bs=1024 count=1024 | sum
> dd: opening `/dev/mapper/system-lvol0': No such device or address

ah, now this is funny. dd doesn't care about the filesystem and can't even
read the device. this does not seem like a (reiser-)fs issue, more like a
corrupted partition table / device (if the data on
/dev/mapper/system-lvol0 is not (!) important, you could play around with

  $ mkfs.{ext3|xfs|reiserfs} /dev/mapper/system-lvol0

and see what it gives. (probably won't work too)

good luck,
Christian.
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