corrupt reiserfs
 

Hi,

I had a pwerfailure, and after this my SuSE 9 server boots up with an error " fsck failed"

I have remounted the file system as writable and then typed

fsck.reiserfs rebuild tree

This returns an error stating "failed to open the file system"

This has happened previously and I had to reload the server.

Please help all ye wise linux people ?

"I have remounted the file system as writable and then typed

fsck.reiserfs rebuild tree"

You have to run fsck against an unmounted file system. If necessary boot into a rescue CD and run rsck from there.

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Steve Stites

If I don't mount the filesystem I get the same error "Unable to open the filesystem."

There must be a easy solution to this. Like in ms when it runs a scandisk and repairs errors on reboot.

Rescue cd ?

Should I boot from the cd and try to repair the installation ?

"There must be a easy solution to this. Like in ms when it runs a scandisk and repairs errors on reboot."

The equivalent Linux program is fsck. See:
man fsck
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fsck.8.html

"Should I boot from the cd and try to repair the installation ?"

Yes. Instead of:
fsck.reiserfs rebuild tree

try the following command (assuming that your reiserfs partition is /dev/hda3):
fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3

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Steve Stites

I will give it a shot, thanks.

If you look at the messages you get from Suse when you boot
it tells you everything you need to do.

as above posting, and then
remount -o rw /dev/hd[blah] /

or similar.


billy

All up and running again.

I didn't type the (--) in front of :


fsck.reiserfs (--)rebuild-tree /dev/hda4

Thanks.