Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing

[Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org>]

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On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:19 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
> > On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt
> >> really quick and no output.
> >
> > No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking for...
> 
> Typo
> 
> > Usage: reiserfsck [mode] [options]  device
> >
> > Modes:
> >   --check                       consistency checking (default)
> 
> But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence
> as reported.
> 
>    reiserfschk
> -su: reiserfschk: command not found
> 
> So it was a typo, I used the right command and then again adding --check
> after bootup had finished. (That is the default though so shouldn't
> make any difference) and it didn't.
If I remember correctly "--check" only checks the filesystem, it doesn't
repair it. you have to check the exit status (echo $?) to see if it's
'0'. it not you have to run reiserfsck --fix-fixable to correct the
problems. 

I hope I'm not mistaken, but you should read the man page before doing
anything. it's been a few years since I last used reiserfs.

Bye
> 
> No output from  `reiserfsck /dev/hdb6' whatever.  Yet on reboot
> ... again the same stop and error report occurs.
> 
-- 
Haim

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