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I use ReiserFS and while i realise that this file system is journaled and often doesnt need disk checking i suspect one or two of my files of data corruption. This is due to the blackout where the computer was not turned off properly or the power surge that occured when the electricity finally did come back on. Mandrake 9.1 still thinks i have ext3 as my filesystem and ran the ext3 fsck program when i booted my computer. Ofcourse this did nothing. How could i run reiser's fsck program on my system?
Originally posted by fancypiper
[B]reiserfsck /dev/hd<XX>
Problem with that is the reiserfsck program is on the root drive and this is the drive i want to check. As im sure you know the drive has to be unmounted in order to be checked.
So still the question remains, how do i check this drive?
Yes but the iso cd and floppy disk does not have the reiserfsck program on them so when i use these to boot up and get myself to a prompt the reiserfsck program is still on the unreachable partition. Unreachable because the partition is not mounted. When i do mount it and use the program it gives me the message that the partition needs to be unmounted for me to run the utility. Do you see my dilema?
I think you can get it done by booting into single user mode with the root partition mounted read-only. If you're using lilo, at the menu, press ESC and then specify single and ro as boottime options.
Originally posted by quatsch shutdown -r -F now
probably won't do given mandrake thinks the file system is ext3.
Realized that about 12 seconds too late Hence, the edit
There shouldn't really be a good reason his distro should believe a partition to be something it's not, that's why I'm curious what the fstab looks like, it should be written in there what filesystem it's using, and that's what fsck uses... (note the 0's 1's and 2's at the end of each entry in fstab)
Originally posted by fancypiper That's strange. I have it on my Mandrake install, my Tom's root and boot and my Knoppix.
Sorry for this error. The reiserfsck program is on the cd and loads from the command line in rescue boot.
I tried single and ro as boot time options but recieved the same reiserfsck error i always do: "This partition is loaded with write permissions. Cannot continue" or something to that effect. So no progress was made there.
I tried the "shutdown -r -F now" command but did not yield any information about my fstab but instead, "surprise surprise", shutdown my computer.
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