Re: [gentoo-user] Recurring reiserfs error

[Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>]

On Saturday 07 October 2006 00:26, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> (note dmesg follows message)
> 
> Out of 12 partitions in my setup 8 are reiserfs.  During bootup I see
> them go by being checked, but always the last one /dev/hda11 fails
> with this message:
> 
>  fsck could not repair all errors ....
> 
> And drops me into the repair shell.
> 
> This has happened over several kernels and for mnths. 
> I finally just took to C-d to finish booting.  This is after stopping
> to reiserfsck /dev/hda11 many times.  It always passes with no error
> messages. 
> 
> Oddly, the drive is always mounted once boot is complete (I mean even
> when I just press Ctrl-d to by-pass fixing.)  And no problems
> read/write to it occur.
> 
> I finally reformatted /dev/hda11 to ext3.  Now the last reiserfs
> partition that shows up in boot messages is /dev/hda9 and it fails the
> same way.
> 
> These facts lead me to believe it isn't really a reiserfs failure at
> all but something earlier that just shows up at that point, but I
> cannot fathom out what. 


Have you checked the output of fdisk to make sure the partition does not 
overlap with another?

fdisk -l /dev/hda

and check that no 2 partitions are using the same disk blocks.


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