Re: Reiser disc hosed?

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

Eric P wrote:
> So I'm doing an 'mplayer -dumpfile', and before I know it I've
> completely filled the last 10GB of my hard drive (total 80GB).  It
> wasn't were the OS resided; just a HD used for a file holding space.
> 
> Anyway, after reaching 100%, the folder I was working in became
> non-working.  When I would do 'ls' from its parent folder, it said
> something like 'Couldn't lstat /folder permission denied'; even as root.
> 
> (sorry if my details are sketchy.  Unfortunately, I tried tackling
> this problem while I had a fever.  Bad idea.).
> 
> 
> It's a reiser4 FS, so I umounted and ran:
> # fsck.reiser4 /dev/hdb1
> ...
> Warn : Fatal corruptions were found. Semantic pass is skipped.
> ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan  5 18:35:18 2006
> Closing fs...done
> 
> 1 fatal corruptions were detected in FileSystem. Run with --build-fs
> option to fix them.
> 
> 
> So, as suggested, I ran:
> # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs /dev/hdb1   (which ran for ~30 min)
> ...
> Warn : Reiser4 storage tree does not exist. Filter pass skipped.
> ...
> Fatal: No reiser4 metadata were found. Semantic pass is skipped.
> ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan  5 19:16:50 2006
> Closing fs...done
> 
> NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE.
> 
> 
> So this is (ahem) bad, huh?  Am I screwed?  Or is there any way to
> recover some of the files?
> 
> Thanks for reading!
> Eric P.
> 

Should I post this somewhere else?  Maybe on the devel ML?

Thanks,
Eric P