RE: [Cooker] ReiserFS killed my /var

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> 
> It killed my var partiton. When I did reboot my desktop machine after
an
> electricity failure, my "/var" was gone. So I am currently left alone
with
> a 8.0 WITHOUT any RPM support, as all relevant files reside there :-\
> (In fact the whole system is relatively unusable without an intact
"/var",
> but most can be "reconstructed", except the RPM-DB)
> 

What exactly do you mean?

- it was not possible to mount /var?
- it was possible to mount but /var was empty?
- it was not entirely empty but some files were gone?

Have you tried fsck it?

-andrej