From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:19:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BE34D34F-3CDA-47C5-9B00-6214799D50D4@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003030601k15e6c8e7s978cf7eeaf9a50a9@mail.gmail.com>
On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:01, Mick wrote:
> ... Once or twice
> things went hairy and I would get a message similar to yours. On
> these rare occasions I booted with a LiveCD and with the partitions
> unmounted I ran --check, then --fix-fixable and finally
> --rebuild-tree. You may want to use an external drive with dd to
> image the current / partition and do all your recovery work on that.
> If you don't care too much about the risk of catastrophic failure then
> just run --rebuild-tree with a LiveCD and see what you get.
That's a great idea. I'm (now) religious about backing up my
customers' computers, often using dd like this, but for some reason it
hadn't yet occurred to me today.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-03 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 12:24 [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :(" Stroller
2010-03-03 12:42 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-03 13:28 ` Stroller
2010-03-03 14:01 ` Mick
2010-03-03 16:19 ` Stroller [this message]
2010-03-03 15:18 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-03 16:16 ` Stroller
2010-03-03 17:14 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-04 9:55 ` Stroller
2010-03-04 10:23 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-04 11:42 ` Stroller
2010-03-09 10:57 ` Stroller
2010-03-03 17:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-03 14:00 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-03 14:26 ` Stroller
2010-03-03 15:26 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-03 15:28 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-03 15:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-03-03 15:31 ` Willie Wong
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