Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 21:56:35 +0400 | From | Sergey Vlasov <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfsck dies |
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On Wed, 03 May 2006 16:56:11 +0200 Markus M_ller wrote:
> reiserfsck told me that I have to run --rebuild-tree to fix all errors. > But this don't work (see below), I tried two times (every time I am > waiting 28 hours).
Apparently you have a huge filesystem (374936503 blocks - about 1.5 TB, if these are 4KB blocks). reiserfsck --rebuild-tree works by reading every data block on the filesystem, finding blocks which look like reiserfs tree nodes and rebuilding the tree from that nodes - so it would take a long time, even if the volume was almost empty.
> If I mount the filesystem, there are no files in it. > What can I do?
[skip] > Pass 1 (will try to insert 423131 leaves): > ####### Pass 1 ####### > Looking for allocable blocks .. Killed [skip] > Out of memory: Killed process 5622 (reiserfsck).
reiserfsck may need lots of memory (especially with such a huge FS) ...
> stacker:/# cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 512716 kB > MemFree: 413660 kB > Buffers: 20268 kB > Cached: 47324 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 19500 kB > Inactive: 56656 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 512716 kB > LowFree: 413660 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > SwapFree: 0 kB
... and you have only 512 MB with no swap. Try to add some swap space - then reiserfsck might eventually complete.
AFAIK, the only way to recover reiserfs after --rebuild-tree has been attempted is to run "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" to completion. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |