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* reiser3.6 files inaccessable from rescue CD post reiserfsck --rebuild-tree
@ 2005-10-30 23:55 michael chang
  2005-10-31  8:34 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: michael chang @ 2005-10-30 23:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ReiserFS List

I know this seems kinda funky, and this is the first time this has
ever happened to me using a reiser filesystem.  (I've found that after
decent testing, the filesystems, like reiserfs3 work quite well.)

Anyways, I'd booted off of a Ubuntu 5.04 live CD and gotten gparted,
and tried to use that to resize my reiserfs v3.6 partition (
/dev/hda5, containing /boot inside (didn't put it as a seperate
partition, to my own woe) and a ClusterKNOPPIX cloop image and all the
files in the system).  Anyways, I tried to shrink the partition (which
I'd done many with great sucess, albeit this was my first time using
gparted to do it), but for some reason it ran reiserfsck -y
--fix-fixable and wouldn't resize the partiton.  So I went and
switched to parted, which while resizing told me that there was an
error with one of the inodes.

So I figured I'd check the partition.  I went and ran reiserfsck
--check /dev/hda5 and it went and told me I needed a rebuild tree.  So
I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, told it yes, and let it
run.

When I went back to mount the paritition, I could do an ls of the
root, and see filenames.  But if I went in to one of the directories
(e.g. /etc, /boot, or whatever) and list, I would get a list of the
files, but -l would tell me the permission was denied to read the list
of files, while running as root, from a rescue CD.  [At this point,
the entire disk was unbootable, because GRUB would give an Error 16
and sqawk because it couldn't read /boot/grub/menu.lst from the
partition.]  I tried chmoding the files as root, just about
everything, and it would always fail.

If I boot my Ubuntu install cd and run the "rescue" system, and try
and select my reiserfs partition, it will fail, saying that it doesn't
have the permisisons to execute /bin/bash.

So, I'm sitting here with my pc next to me, with a reiserfs partition
that seems to have all the data intact on it, but gives a permision
denied error when I'm running any tool as root, even to just get a
directory listing and read the files.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to capture reiserfsck's output while it
was doing its work, so I don't have a copy of that, unfortunately.

I don't have $20, or otherwise I would send it, but I would appreciate
any help that could be given, if possible.  I understand you're all
busy and resource-strapped, although I'm rather perplexed about my
situation.  Thanks.

--
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
 - No man is an island, and no man is unable.

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2005-10-30 23:55 reiser3.6 files inaccessable from rescue CD post reiserfsck --rebuild-tree michael chang
2005-10-31  8:34 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2005-10-31 21:41   ` michael chang
2005-11-01 12:12     ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2005-11-01 12:28       ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2005-11-02  0:03         ` michael chang

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