From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2Rsd-0002E8-8q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:07:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6HC6ApI016354; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:06:10 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6HC12K0012362 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:01:02 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so468280nfc for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:01:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V4GFcRDIiGmtT0BUf4W7oyPY3xmF8v/N4PgYSF5pP961gmA8K/0cl5V879ZB++yITMa9oZAuBSAccdJcHgYHhTNUVnSL5BsnLr8KJLguh4rfuXQEu0do3xu+AOPE3Lm+vE9TzCv3AMrdlSqDZscZU8vhRLzhB1oyQFky65H6GEw= Received: by 10.78.122.11 with SMTP id u11mr785137huc; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.169.4 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <17bd4e850607170501ne9ffbabgdb36ca7f5cc332fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:01:01 +0200 From: "Ralph Slooten" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown In-Reply-To: <1153133466.6037.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BB6720.9080502@gmail.com> <1153133466.6037.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Archives-Salt: bfb8e631-b124-4953-865b-f7ad90edaa65 X-Archives-Hash: 6ba5a2d04f48ed087b1ee57e7e77b6bd Alan McKinnon wrote: > It looks like you have a problem with some reiser-related binary that is > not on the / partition. There is obviously nothing wrong with hda3 as > ext3 works on it. Which partition hosts the /lib and /sbin directories? Both are on the same partition too. This goes for everything except for /boot and /home. The rest is all on / (/dev/hda3). > Unfortunately you seem to have been a victim of the off button being hit > at exactly the right moment to cause maximum difficulty :-( I fear this too yes, however after a re-format (`mkreiserfs /dev/hda3`) off the boot-cd and restore of filesystem from a backup this should have been solved. If the backup was damaged, I would have gotten errors during the initial create, the restore, and also from the current ext2 "/" partition ~ but I got no errors at all. > If all else fails you could take the long route: > emerge -e system > emerge -s world > A drastic measure, but it would rebuild everything and almost certainly > fix the problem. I fear not actually, as I think this problem is reiserfs-related, and has to do with a corrupted journal or something, but not sure though. What is the best way to *really* format a drive before recreating a journalled filesystem (reiserfs) so that I really know it's not using an old corrupt one or something? I have other working partitions on that drive so an fdisk is not possible: ~ `cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda3` ? -- Ralph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list