I was working late last night when my workstation started behaving badly -
running apps freezing, new processes taking forerver to start, etc. So, I
decided to shut down the system, and reboot. I had to go to tty1 to make
this happen - KDE/X refused to behave by this point.
Once I restarted, KDE started behaving as though it had never been run before.
So I switched to console mode and began investigating. Turns out that /home
was not mounted. That explains KDE acting like a new install, but this
doesn't explain the underlying problem.
When I try to mount /home manually I get the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
or too many mounted file systems
This is odd because this system has been running fine for months and has been
very stable.
I've tried the commands "mount /home" and "mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /home"
and get the same error above. I've tried to run
"fsck.reiserfs --check /dev/hda4" which reported some problems with the bad
block table, but running it again just now doesn't report any problems at
all. I've also tried "fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/hda4" and
"fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-sb /dev/hda4". None of these commands make any
difference. I don't want to try the more extreme --rebuild-tree option as I'm
concerned I might loose my data.
I'm stuck with this one - I need to at least get the partition mounted so that
I can recover some user data. But my efforts aren't paying off. If need be,
I can replace the drive, but I still need that data - and it doesn't appear
that it's impossible to get it at this point. Any tips/suggestions?
There is only one drive involved, which has 4 partitions /boot, swap, /,
and /home (in that order). The root partition is behaving fine, just
the /home partition is having problems.
The only thing that may have caused this is an upgrade I did earlier in my
work session (emerge world), but this didn't update anything specific to the
file system. Kmail was the primary item that got upgraded, and my emerge
logs confirm this.
Thanks for any ideas.
Shawn
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