From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:40:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:40:27 -0400 Received: from alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.19.71]:25358 "EHLO alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:40:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20010809181549.A18699@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:15:49 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Aaron Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Working reiserfsck? In-Reply-To: <20010802133051.A88@toy.ucw.cz> <20010807195546.A22058@jacana.dyn.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <20010807195546.A22058@jacana.dyn.dhs.org>; from Aaron Smith on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:55:46PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > On one of my machines, I installed reiserfs on / fs.... and got to habit > > of just powering that machine down with powerswitch. I was running > > various kernels at least from 2.4.3 on it. > > > > Now I tried to run reiserfsck, and (besides it having very ugly UI) it > > reported some problems. Question is, how to correct those? reiserfsck > > attitude seems to be "run me and I'll kill your filesystem". Is it really > > that dangerous? Where to get working reiserfsck? > > is the filesystem mounted? Yep, mounted readonly on /. You reminded me of another question: When should be reiserfsck run? Machine crashes. Should I run reiserfsck after booting from floppy, or should I mount and umount to let log be replayed? Pavel PS: Oh, btw, I tried lftp ftp.namesys.com:/pub/reiserfsprogs/pre, and it did not finish within 10 minutes. I'll retry in the night. -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org