Messages in this thread |  | | From | Ross Vandegrift <> | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:01:45 -0500 | Subject | Re: Reiserfs corruption on 2.4.17-rc1! |
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> This is my opinion: > -Something (reiserfs, anything) has caused fs corruption > -It should be repaired by reiserfsck, but it's broken :-(( > -This corruption should NOT have happened, reiserfsck shouldn't > have to be used. > -I'm not a kernel hacker, so I can't try anything...what I know is > that > /etc in hc5 doesn't work. /usr, /var....works correctly. > > Well, I'd like to know what's happened in my drive. Can somebody try to > give an explanation?
I've seen this happen when being careless about partitioning my drive. If you changed your partition table and created the filesystem without a reboot you could be in for this problem. If fdisk was unable to update the partition table after writing it out and you ran mkreiserfs, you just made a filesystem on the *old* partition, according to the *old* partition table. Upon rebooting, the disk will be synced to the new partition table. If you happened to shrink the parition a bit, the filsystem is suddenly longer than the partition.
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