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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:50:30
Message-Id: 200709110335.02438.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition by Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1 On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
2 > > Do you think that there is any plausible chance that using the partition
3 > >
4 > > > might cause further damage?
5 > >
6 > > if there isn't a hardware problem - very probably not. I have had very
7 > > good
8 > > experiences with reiserfsck (for 3.6) and fsck.reiser4 (with reiser4). If
9 > > the
10 > > fs got fixed, it is fixed.
11 > > If the disk is damaged, than reinstalling from scratch won't help you
12 > > anyway.
13 >
14 > I realized that the damaged files were filled with nulls, so I made a
15 > script that detected null-filled files across my filesystem. There are
16 > some 250 files like this. Here are some:
17 >
18 > /media/hda2/bin/du: 59084
19 > /media/hda2/bin/rm: 34100
20 > /media/hda2/bin/tr: 27492
21 > /media/hda2/bin/wc: 23108
22 > /media/hda2/bin/dir: 79420
23 > /media/hda2/bin/cut: 27048
24 > /media/hda2/bin/env: 13436
25 > /media/hda2/bin/seq: 17740
26 > /media/hda2/bin/tty: 12800
27 > /media/hda2/bin/yes: 12876
28 > /media/hda2/bin/expr: 23336
29 > /media/hda2/bin/head: 24516
30 > /media/hda2/bin/sort: 65168
31 > /media/hda2/bin/stty: 37380
32 > /media/hda2/bin/sync: 12584
33 > /media/hda2/bin/true: 12200
34 > /media/hda2/bin/vdir: 79420
35 > /media/hda2/bin/dirname: 13836
36 > /media/hda2/bin/rmdir: 14684
37 > /media/hda2/bin/sleep: 14772
38 > /media/hda2/bin/touch: 34328
39 > /media/hda2/bin/uname: 15316
40 > /media/hda2/bin/chroot: 13500
41 > /media/hda2/bin/mkfifo: 14644
42 > /media/hda2/bin/readlink: 18988
43 > /media/hda2/bin/basename: 13772
44 > /media/hda2/etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf: 2964
45 > /media/hda2/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf: 15916
46 > /media/hda2/etc/laptop-mode/lm-profiler.conf: 1561
47 > /media/hda2/etc/portage/package.keywords/wanted~: 796
48 > /media/hda2/var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs: 1812
49 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.info: 232
50 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cset: 13848
51 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cset: 14133
52 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cmap: 31404
53 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cset: 14039
54 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cset: 13682
55 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cmap: 27758
56 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cset: 12557
57 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cmap: 35133
58 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cset: 13307
59 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cmap: 31235
60 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cset: 13920
61 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/context-filter.so: 26976
62 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cmap: 31046
63 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cset: 14259
64 > /media/hda2/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.info: 914
65
66 start with emerging coreutils and go on from that point.
67
68 >
69 >
70 > Most of these things are not essential; the big exception is the things in
71 > /bin. So it does seem that the system is fixable.
72 > Something else that I wanted to ask: this backup that I made after the
73 > screwup but before rebuild-tree, do you think it is reliable?
74
75 not really, no. Damaged files are damaged files. Some stuff might be usable
76 but that has to be checked on a case to case basis.
77 --
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