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

[mike.fieschko at devmike.com]

Original message sent on the Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:16:51 -0400 by bimasakti at gmail.com
> as my understanding...
> you harddisk has bad blocks.
> did u use smartmon to check your harddisk condition?
> --rebuild-tree is the last option for me .

[snip]

Yes, I have smartmontools installed but I didn't get any notifications in weeks or months from smartd.

The desktop is a Debian etch/testing box, and I had etch's latest package installed.

The smartd.conf for hda (which is the only hard drive) is

/dev/hda -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m mike.fieschko at devmike.com,root at localhost

The box was always running, so the box would be running when the 2 a.m. short self-test and Saturday
3 a.m. were scheduled.

/var/ was on a different partition.  I've run fsck.reiserfs on that partition, and mounted it, and found no
smartd logfile.  Does smartd write a logfile?

If --rebuild-tree is the last option for you, what ther options are there before --rebuild-tree?

Thanks in advance.