Re: Reiserfsck can't fix FS

[evilninja <evilninja@gmx.net>]

Thomas Raschbacher schrieb:
> 
> as you see it produced no errors at all so the HDD can be read fine. any
> idea what could cause the problem?

looking once more on your logfiles:

 > Pass 1 (will try to insert 16439 leaves):
 > Looking for allocable blocks .. finished
 > 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%.                             left 1982,
 > 176 /sec
 > The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem (perhaps
 > memory). Send us the bug report only if the second run dies at
 > the same place with the same block number.
 >
 > build_the_tree: Nothing but leaves are expected. Block 10059767 -
 > unknown

the block number is indeed the same on every (?) reiserfsck-run. so maybe 
you can put your disk into another machine and/or free your usb-disk from 
usb and use it via (S)ATA? (if possible, to rule out hw-problems).

and:

 > I had to run reiserfsck on my usb hdd because there were some problems.

your reiserfs seems to be heavily damaged. can you tell us more about 
these "problems"?

thanks,
Christian.
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Unoptimized hard drive