Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown

[Ralph Slooten]

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
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