Re: problem with reiser3

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

Marcos Dione wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:38:40AM +0400, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> 
>>Marcos Dione wrote:
>>
>>>   hi all. I'm having problems checking a reiser3 filesystem.
>>>reiserfsck says: 
>>>
>>>bread: Cannot read the block (27887610): (Input/output error).
>>>
>>>   I passed badblocks over the partition and found 61 bad sectors
>>>(which I know is bad), 
>>
>>
>>did you specify reiserfs block size (via option -b) when creating a list
>>of bad blocks?
> 
> 
>     dunno which is the block size. tried to figure it out, but (from
> dmesg trying to mount the partition):
> 


debugreiserfs /dev/sda1
then look at Blocksize it the output


> ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
> 
>     and:
> 
> $ sudo reiserfstune /dev/sda1
> reiserfstune: Filesystem looks not cleanly umounted, check the consistency first.
> 
>     I assume it's the 8192 the kernel reports...
> 
> 
>>it would be better to create a backup on a spare bigger partition
>>using dd_rescue (pad not recoverable zones with zeroes), then run
>>fsck on the created image.
> 
> 
>     unluckly I can't. it's a 160 GiB partition and I don't have spare
> space.
> 
>