From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tierra Subject: Re: Reiser4-ReiserFS recovery story Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:27:19 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200407281633.06373.marcel@hilzinger.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200407281633.06373.marcel@hilzinger.hu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: ReiserFS Awesome tip, thanks a ton for posting it, I'm sure it'll come in handy late= r. Bryan On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:33:06 +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Did you know, that you can recover a ReiserFS partition, which you format= ted > with reiser4? >=20 > Yesterday I formatted a ReiserFS partition with Reiser4. It was by mistak= e, as > I did not modify the partition in my slow.c bash-script. Nevertheless I > learned from what I knew about Reiser4: >=20 > "If Reiser4 writes during formatting only the really needed informations"= I > thought, "then data must still be there..." >=20 > So I run reiserfsck --rebuild-sb on the partition. I told the program, th= at > the partition is Reiser V 3.6 and it worked. Now I tried reiserfsck --che= ck. > As this one failed I had to run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree to be able to m= ount > the partition. Now I can mount the partition and all the data is still th= ere. >=20 > Nice feature :-) perhaps it can help someody else, too. >=20 > Marcel > -- > =DCdv=F6zlettel -- Mit freundlichen Gr=FCssen, > Marcel Hilzinger >