Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:45:00 +0100 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfs corruption on 2.4.17-rc1! |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 06:01:45 Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > 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. Before partitioning as now it is, I had the same problem. Perhaps it's due to a fdisk bug. If I see the message "Partitioning table couldn't be re-read" or something like that, I always reboot. Perhaps I forgot rebooting, and this is the problem, but it's very improbable
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