Re: Working reiserfsck?

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:15:49 +0200


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.

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