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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:20:44
Message-Id: e628adfd0709101807p65cd4ee2k4fa9ffbf7dedb91c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 > Do you think that there is any plausible chance that using the partition
2
3 > > might cause further damage?
4 >
5 > if there isn't a hardware problem - very probably not. I have had very
6 > good
7 > experiences with reiserfsck (for 3.6) and fsck.reiser4 (with reiser4). If
8 > the
9 > fs got fixed, it is fixed.
10 > If the disk is damaged, than reinstalling from scratch won't help you
11 > anyway.
12
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
67 Most of these things are not essential; the big exception is the things in
68 /bin. So it does seem that the system is fixable.
69 Something else that I wanted to ask: this backup that I made after the
70 screwup but before rebuild-tree, do you think it is reliable?
71
72 --
73 Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Corruption in reiserfs partition Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>