[TriLUG] fsck.reiserfs reports \'Filesystem seems to have fatal corruptions\'

[Jason Faulkner]

Usually by the time you have to --rebuild-tree on a reiserfs, you're screwed.

And it usually means the disk  is bad.

Usually.

On 8/24/06, mike.fieschko at devmike.com <mike.fieschko at devmike.com> wrote:
>
> Booting into my desktop this afternoon, I got the above message after activating swap and fsck'ing the root filesystem.
>
> Some other messages:
>
> Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x302 of format 3.6 with standard journal
> Blocks (total/free): 1024143/318178 by 4096 bytes.
> Filesystem is clean
> fsck died with exit status 4
> Root file system check failed with error code 4.
>
> The output says running fsck.reiserfs with --rebuild-tree is required.
>
> This is an old 40G drive.  I bought an 80G drive this afternoon, and am considering using Timo's CD to boot the box, then creating a reiserfs partition on the 80G drive, of the same number of blocks as in the 40G, and using ddrescue to copy the partition contents.
>
> Anyone with experience with fsck.reiserfs who can alert me to any gotchas?  I've read that I should also run fsck.reiserfs with the -S option as well as with --rebuild-tree, so the entire partition is scanned and the process won't halt on finding an error.
>
> I have the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda (hda2 is /) saved in an old email.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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