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 4.54) id 1FI7lw-00033a-5M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:20:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2BHJmdD026207; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:19:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2BHFeQU008972 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:15:40 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FI7gq-000224-9W for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:15:40 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FI7gn-0008Gn-CI for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:15:37 +0100 Received: from c-68-36-161-94.hsd1.nj.comcast.net ([68.36.161.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:15:37 +0100 Received: from pete4abw by c-68-36-161-94.hsd1.nj.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:15:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfschk stops boot but reports nothing Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:15:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wtf17z28.fsf@newsguy.com> 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-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-36-161-94.hsd1.nj.comcast.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) X-Archive: encrypt Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e045e938-af0a-4d80-9637-8a590e1f5a38 X-Archives-Hash: 59bd4ac2782b1359ccdc6177a8bab159 On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:58:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: all snip... Here's what I would do. Boot off a floppy or livecd. Then, do NOT mount your root drive (/dev/hdb6) you may have a problem with. run reiserfsck --check /dev/hdb6 and see what pops up. If you get a message to run fix-fixable, then follow those directions. It could be as simple as not shutting down properly or having had to reboot without shutting down at all. A status bit is set on the drive which tells fsck that it was not shutdown properly. Reiser is unique in that it can't really check the root partition carefully because it is always mounted read-only when it checks it. But definitely, you need to boot off a different medium to fix this. -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list